I still don't get this. I have a new skin I want to apply to my portal but not the Admin interfaces. I want to use the Arrow Standard skin for Admin.

So, I go into Admin, Skins and select the Arrow-Standard skin in the drop down. I get the three choices for that skin - Admin, default left, default one pane. Note that I don't have the two checkboxes for Portal and Admin so I don't have control over the scope of this selection. I choose Apply on the Admin version of the skin and that works - All the pages get the Arrow skin.

Next, I want to change the Portal skin. So, I drop down the skin selector and choose my portal skin. I get the previews *and* I get the two checkboxes for Portal and Admin. I uncheck Admin so whichever skin I select should only apply to Portal right? If I choose a skin, and click Apply, it changes the skin for all the pages including the skin admin page I'm on at the moment!

I don't get it! Why don't I have the two checkboxes when I choose the Arrow-standard skin? Why doesn't my skin selection only apply to portal pages when I uncheck the Admin box?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Hi Sebastian,

I also made the same mistake to apply my skin to the whole portal and the admin pages don't show correctly. I am using the latest DotNetNuke version (5.6.1)
I tried your suggestion to go to Admin page, set the skin and click on "Copy design to descendants" under page settings, and it doesn't seem to work. The settings page for the admin page still hase my portal default skin.

Can you help me to change my the skin of admin pages back to DNN default?

Thank you,
Steven