A user wants to delete unused color schemes (Schemes 1-8) from their Dawn theme after updating their website’s color palette. The schemes appear in the theme customizer but cannot be easily removed through the interface.
Solution provided:
settings_data.json file in the theme code editorpresets > Default > color_schemesCritical warnings:
settings_data.json content to a local text file before editingScreenshots demonstrate the before/after state of the settings file and how to identify which schemes are in use.
Open issue:
A later user reports these instructions don’t work for Dawn version 15.3.0, suggesting the file structure may have changed in newer versions. This remains unresolved.
Hello,
I recently decided to completely update the color theme on our website. I now have a ton of different color themes I do not want anymore. I can not find any way to delete them. I have tried to find them in the code but have been unsuccessful. Schemes 1-8 are no longer valid.
Hi,
In Settings.data file you can find but please be careful while deleting any scheme first make sure the one you want to remove from code not assigned to any section.
Hi,
You can remove the associated json settings from your settings_data.json file under presets > Default > color_schemes
@HafizFahadMunir - Thank you for the screenshot. If I delete the “background 1”, “Background 2”, “Inverse”, “Accent 1” and “Accent 2” is that an issue? Should I transfer the new colors to those pallet names?
I recommend you to take a copy of the whole code in the file and save in txt file in your local hard disk. After that you can try edit the code until get the results that you want.
Hi, first please duplicate the current theme from themes list page and click 3 dots and click duplicate then:
for example i added one the 6th one here:
Then from code i deleted all 1 to 5
“background 1”, “Background 2”, “Inverse”, “Accent 1” and “Accent 2”
From below To
This is
and now i have only 6th schema like this:
Again please do it on the duplicate theme first and test.
Hello,
I am creating a draft theme using Dawn 15.3.0, and I tried to follow the solutions posted here but they don’t seem to be accurate for 15.3.0.
Is there another way to remove color schemes from Dawn 15.3.0? Thank you in advance!
