infact, changing from frosty to dark makes no difference

Hello Troy,

You will also need to select the theme in the profile type settings.

in profile? before this last update I set it to "dark" and it was set. shouldn't the default be the theme in easysocial?
I imported from jomsocial if that makes a diff but it was still dark after that.
even the wall is white and again, changing the temlate made NO difference.

I have tried accessing the site and it does seem to load the dark theme correctly as you can see here, http://screencast.com/t/9ZtjdyrQ5

well it sure doesn't for me. infact, right this minute I can't even get to /community due to a redirect loop.

update: ok, redirect looks like it was caused by jomsocial ( removed )
the problem is a LARGE portion of the "template" for easy social is NOT dark. very few parts seem to be. Almost everything is styled with white / gray.
I really need this dark template

Your redirection loop is most like an incorrect setup because EasySocial has a system plugin that redirects users from com_users to com_easysocial. Here's what actually happened

1. You have set all menu's to be registered only (For EasySocial items)

2. When user tries to login to the site, it then redirects to EasySocial and when Joomla realizes that the user needs to be logged in to access EasySocial items, the redirection happens to com_users requesting the user to login first.

3. When the redirection happens, the system plugin tries to redirect the com_users request to com_easysocial again.

In short, you need to have at least the dashboard menu created as public. If you don't want this menu to be visible, you can assign this into a hidden menu

ok, i've removed jomsocial and set the default page to dashboard which I agree the home needs to be public and is.
Next step?

If you already have a public menu item, everything should work fine now

redirect is but the dark template is NOT dark.please go look around. you'll see its not dark based at all... Just that one page

Hello Troy,

I have already fixed and replied you at http://stackideas.com/forums/match-my-existing-drop-down on why the dark template is not showing up for your profile.

Mark, I'm / we're wrong.... I can't have "the wall" public. This is a closed site ( due to enemy guilds spying on us ) and so the social interactions are private. I changed the "home' to "featured" and the massive redirects show up instantly ( see image )
i checked the error log and nothing shows up there.
sorry for cross posting didn't meant to do that. I'm running on 4hrs sleep

if you check the live site, you'll see that the only thing you see when not logged on are a few public menu items and the jomsocial cover & login. Thats what I need here.
Just like this image.

update: on refresh those errors went away.. I'm not sure what that means

If that's the case, then your front page menu item should link to the login layout instead of the dashboard. I have changed this for you

Mark, its messed up again. Something is going wrong when you migrate. It's "STUCK" on wireframe just like before.
I've set both profile and theme to "sherwood" ( basically same as dark ) and to dark both, and neither will show the dark theme. When I look @ the more.min.css link in the element inspector it says its pulling the wireframe style. this is exactly as before. How in the world do we fix this... afaik I'm ready to go live but I can't like this.
I had to temporarily put jomsocial back as home while we figure this out.

Hello Troy,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. I can't seem to access the back end with the provided login credentials.

Mark, I figured out the problem with the dark vanishing on update. You might want to put this in docs or FAQ.. when you migrate from jomsocial it puts all users in the jomsocial profile and that by default is wireframe instead of "default". Changing it to default and/or moving the users to registered profile solved the issue.

Thanks for the heads up on this Troy