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

Stephen R — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:58:01 +0000

One of the most common questions I get regarding the Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress comes from people wanting to have multiple blogs running on the same theme, but with a different header for each blog. It can be done, and it’s fairly easy to do. Once you have it set up, you could use it to call any distinct file on a per-blog basis — a different CSS file, or a different footer perhaps.

I’ve never been too active about showing this to people, because the function required to do it is not one I consider completely stable — I din’t want to show people how to do it only to have it break the next time I update the VMB system. In response to the requests, however, I am adding a function to the upcoming release (currently in private beta). You can have that ability right now, in a way that should not cause problems with later updates — just add a short function to your existing vmb-functions.php file.
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New WordPress Plugin: Log Deprecated Calls

Stephen R — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:32:50 +0000

New plugin for Y’all. This one is of particular interest to plugin authors and theme designers (and… nobody else).

Activate it, and any time WordPress calls a function or file that has been deprecated, a message will be sent to your PHP log file that identifies exactly where the call came from and what to replace it with. This will allow you to very easily keep your plugins and themes calling the most current functions.

(And yes, the message is more informative than the one returned by WP_DEBUG.)

Here’s the link. Go get it!

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Winna Winna Winna!

Stephen R — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:24:43 +0000

Look, Ma, I won somethin’!

Hmmm… “1 Theme of Choice from Blogalized.com“. Not too bad. I’ve been thinking about maybe sprucing the place up a bit….

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Paged Comments for WordPress “Sandbox” Theme

Stephen R — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:02:49 +0000

The page for my Virtual Multiblog system has grown to contain over 200 comments, which, while gratifying, makes for a long load time and a lot of scrolling. Yesterday, I noticed on Ozh’s web site that he has paged comments, which means the page only shows some of the comments at a time, with links to the rest that are familiar to anyone who’s ever used Google: « 1 2 3 …9 »

A quick email later and I was checking out Keyvan’s Paged Comments plugin. Though a little unpolished, (e.g. settings via file edit rather than an Admin screen), it works very well, and I quickly got it running on those pages with lots of comments.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that the comments looked radically different than they had before. I use a restyled version of the (very) popular Sandbox theme on this blog, but the plugin didn’t have a template for Sandbox.

So I made one.
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