Comments on: Theme designers – what you need to know about WordPressMU

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:33:20 +0000

Agreed
The custom menu and options page working for an add on site are very important to me I don’t want a user creating a site with a new version of wp and can’t use the features it a selling / controlling support tickets point for me.
I know wp 3 just hit the streets but I beta tested it from day 1 and was setting up the site with it and let the last thing to do themes and Bamm not very many. sorry for rating on the subject I thought by joining a theme plan that it would be smoth going from there but turns out that developer did put in support for the new features but let out the add on sites.
I know you have heard it many times. Thank you for doing what you do for wpmu / wp and the little people be-hide the keyboard. its nice getting a think you.
I’m going to stop ranting and raging now time for a 3rd cup of coffee :>

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:15:36 +0000

Well, you were talking about options pages. There’s plenty of those in the repo.

Nothing changed for themes in 3.0 except the addition of new features. A theme that worked in 2.9 will work on 3.0 just fine.

The theme I’m using here hasn’t been updated for 3.0 and it’s running on a network. All my sites run on a network. I test hundreds of themes a year.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:12:32 +0000

Thank you andrea I will I have only seen 2 that said for wp 3 in the official repo.
I Will look again.
The more I talk about the subject the better chance that a theme designer will see it and say to him/herself wow 3.0 is out I should get up to speed.
Then again maybe not.

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:29:20 +0000

Like I said in another reply to you, it depends on where you got your themes.

The code for an options page is NO DIFFERENT for multiple sites. the ones that don’t work were just not done properly.

Get themes out of the official repo.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:08:28 +0000

I’m going through this myself with a lot of themes I have downloaded for the free blog site I’m working on. the themes that have option panels or frameworks (I think that’s what its called) to add graphics seo stuff and ads. when used on a multi site WP 3.0 add on site the control panel, framework whatever the author will call it(options) will not show and theme is useless. An article needs to be written about the code needed to show add on sites an option panels or frameworks in the appearance tab

By: gareth

gareth — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:28:05 +0000

How do I add a list of the sub blogs (subdomains) using php in my themes sidebar navigation ?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:41:21 +0000

Doing my first WPMU setup for people in a specific industry and I’m really fussing about how many themes to support. One really flexible one that fits the industry sounds nice, but I know that will never work out and I don’t want to spend time tweaking themes for clients since that is endless once begun.

Thanks
ArtDeco

By: creativeherb

creativeherb — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:50:33 +0000

I think simplicity is key to wpmu theme design. With all the possible elements and functionality of a wpmu site, it’s too easy to get sucked in and design something that’s way too cramped up.

By: Klark

Klark — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:21:57 +0000

recently went through this list
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/50-beautiful-free-wordpress-themes/

Lots of them are perfect for MU, well designed with no hard coded features.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:49:38 +0000

Can I add a new one:
If you are going to need to include Javascript libraries then consider loading them in the themes functions.php file using wp_enqueue_script rather than hardcoding them into the themes header. That way, those of us using plugins or code to load cached (google hosted or other) libraries in their place don’t have to mess about altering every theme.