Comments on: Virtual Multiblog — how to use unique headers on blogs running the same theme

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:02:51 +0000

I think there is a more general issue with theme editing and VMB, for technically challenged persons like myself. There’s a risk of editing a theme for one site and forgetting it will forget other sites with the same theme, so (I suppose) the theme’s folder should be copied and the theme renamed in the CSS file (e.g. MyFavouriteTheme to MyFavouriteTheme2) as Wordpress seems to use the first line of the CSS file to list its theme choices.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:51:48 +0000

Post updated — the script was missing a line.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:05:58 +0000

Den — That works just fine, except when the VUSER has slashes in it. The reason I suggest the get_virtual_user() function described above is that it takes anything not a letter or number and changes it to an understroke, thus making it filename-safe.

So… You did it exactly right; but your code won’t work for all cases.

(for example: nav_striderweb.com/blog.css won’t work, but nav_striderweb_com_blog.css will.)

By: Den

Den — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:59 +0000

Ooooh, php tag are not print here again… In a few words:
The specific StyleSheet URL is given by the Php-command ECHO that call “VUSER” var that compose the name of the css file.

[I think I fixed it in your first comment -- ed]

By: Den

Den — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:21:12 +0000

Arrrgh, it was to read:

Et voila.

By: Den

Den — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:16:07 +0000

Scusi!: my typing error:

In my subparagraph 1), it was to read:

By: Den

Den — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:46:03 +0000

Thank you Stephen,
a few days before your post, I found my solution, that here:

1) in ” /wp-content/themes/mytheme/header.php, I wrote this line:

2) in ” /wp-content/themes/mytheme/ I’ve created the file:
“nav_abc123.css”, where “abc123″ represent in your example “example_com_blog1″ or ” example_com_blog2″, etc…

3) It’s all, it’s functional at 100%, without bug nor error message. As soon as my 1st site with VMB is ready, I will announce my adventure! (very interesting). In a friendly way, Den