Widgetizing themes

Posted by Andrea under Themes, how to

Often as an MU admin, we see a theme we like, or a user wants to use, but it’s not widgetized. Rest easy, as widgetizing a theme is quite easy once you know how. I promise it takes longer to read through the instructions than it does to actually do it.
I was really pleased to [...] Read more »

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Get some FREE themes from the $5 theme club

Posted by Andrea under News, Themes

Small potatoes is crazy. Seriously. He’s giving away some $5 theme club memberships so site owners like myself can run whatever kind of contest we like.
So here’s the deal - want a membership? Subscribe to my feed for this blog and leave me a comment. That’s it. I’ve got 50 accounts to give away and [...] Read more »

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Customizing your install: the home page

Posted by Andrea under Basics, Plugins, Themes

The absolute first thing you want to do when your site is installed and running is change it off the default theme. There are actually two copies of kubrick bundled in MU. One is under the default folder, the other is under a theme folder called “home”. The only difference is this one makes use [...] Read more »

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New theme club, MU friendly

Posted by Andrea under Themes

Small Potatoes, the designer of the theme I’m using on this blog, has realeased a FIVE DOLLAR theme club. Yeah, you read that right. $5 for at least 12 professionally designed and very slick themes over the course of a year.
I’ve exchanged a few emails about the specifics of MU, so he’s keeping that in [...] Read more »

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Making your signup page match your theme

Posted by Andrea under Basics, Themes

By default, the signup page users get directed to is made to integrate into the default theme. As the site admin of the best new blog host on the block, you’re probably going to pick another theme so you can stand out in the crowd. With soem themes, the signup page looks horrible. While [...] Read more »

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Changing the default theme

Posted by Andrea under Hacks, Themes

Let’s face it, the default theme is ugly. Sure it was cool way back when, but now everyone has rounded corners and big blue headers. There may come a time when you would like to have the default theme on signup be something else.
For this, I am going to assume you’ve already picked another theme [...] Read more »

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Enabling a theme for just one blog

Posted by Andrea under Themes

Sometimes on a WPMU system, you may wish to have a theme enabled just for one blog. The main blog is a good example,. because you do not want users able to choose the exact same layout as the main blog with any custom coding it may have.
First, make sure the theme is not active [...] Read more »

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Adding new themes

Posted by Andrea under Themes

In MU, users do not have access to the server, and the site admin is the one who will upload new themes. They stil go in the Themes directory just like in regular WordPress. Before they will show up sitewide for all users, the admin must enable it.
Go to Site Admin -> Themes. Here [...] Read more »

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