Comments on: Add a Style Switcher to your WordPress Theme

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:05:51 +0000

Great script.
It would be nice if visitors could switch the themes as well.
So I wonder how to change the script from accepting also the GET method and how to display it as a widget. Any hint would be greatly appreciate!

By: Brian Duncan

Brian Duncan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:05:06 +0000

actually, I seemed to have corrected the problem. Not sure why..

By: Brian Duncan

Brian Duncan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:41:38 +0000

I really like this tutorial it worked great. I’m only running into one problem. Since I added this feature to my functions, anytime I hit a button that performs an action the page goes white. The action gets performed, however, the page is not redirected properly.

Anyone else run into this?

By: Michael Soriano

Michael Soriano — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:00:44 +0000

Thank you @David

By: Adeptris

Adeptris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:36:38 +0000

Great tutorial I am new to WordPress themes and php code but would make one observation for others.

If your theme already has a functions.php, mine has and I do not want to change to much, so I will just create a folder called custom and drop the new file into this folder, and it is then easy to add to any other theme.

Then in the main functions.php I add a single line at the top:
include_once(TEMPLATEPATH.”/custom/functions.php”);

Hi Michael:
One thing I was wondering if it could be more dynamic, have a styles folder and add the css files in there, then the admin function looks in this folder and adds the file names as options, then in the header.php use the if get_option(‘mst_style_sheet’) to return any active css file name.

This could cut down the code in the header.php to two lines.

But I am not up to speed enough with php to do this, so it is just a suggestion to make your fantastic tutorial more dynamic.

David

By: Erica M

Erica M — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:23:59 +0000

Wow, this looks intimidating, but I can’t wait to try it. Thanks!

By: Michael Soriano

Michael Soriano — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:23:32 +0000

download the actual functions.php file instead of copying from my code in the post. the code in the post have some unwanted characters and is there for display purposes only.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:47:55 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the tutorial. Would you know why I am getting “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/smallbiz/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/default/functions.php on line 107″ after updating my functions file with the first 2 peices of code above?

By: Vee

Vee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:07:48 +0000

A big thank you for this post. Just what I needed!

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:18:23 +0000

Being new to WP (3 blogs) and really NOT all that interested in learning the code (inside & out) your information is really helpful.

I downloaded the Kubrick-on-Crack theme and am working with it for a site re-work. The ability to change styles, etc will be helpful.

Thanks,
Ed