Hide Stark from the Appearance page UI

Created on 1 August 2025, 7 days ago

Problem/Motivation

We explicitly tell people not to use Stark as a base theme for building their websites. In the description for the Stark theme, we link to the Theming Guide instead. With this being the case, it's probably worth hiding Stark by default from the Appearance page UI.

This is a follow up to 📌 Discourage use of Stark as a base theme (and possibly mark it internal or hidden) Needs work

Steps to reproduce

Go to admin/appearance. Start is an available theme to enable, but we have a note asking people not to use it.

Proposed resolution

Add the hidden attribute to the stark.info.yml file so it's hidden by default.

User interface changes

Start will no longer show up on the Appearance page UI

Release notes snippet

Stark has been removed from the Appearance page UI. This is because we explicitly mention in the Stark description that the point of Stark is to demo our HTML and that it should not be used as a base theme.

If you need to enable Stark via the UI you can remove the hidden flag from the stark.info.yml file.

📌 Task
Status

Active

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

Stark theme

Created by

🇮🇪Ireland markconroy

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