Persistent Styles Plugin

Have you ever updated your theme by replacing, or simply overwriting your old theme files? Well, when we edit themes we tend to add many custom styles that are supra-theme. Maybe there are styles for a plugin (such as my Post Information Plugin) that you want there regardless of what theme you have selected. Well, I have the fix for you.

  1. Download the plugin
  2. Activate
  3. Then your styles under Presentation » Persistent Styles.

I should warn you that the style sheet will be printed after your primary sheet. I would advise on only adding non theme dependent styles, because it will throw off your CSS inheritance.

Have fun!

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16 Comments

  1. Hey… good plugin. I’ve been using a seperate stylesheet with specific styles with all my themes.

    Ajay on 02.06.07

  2. Thanks Ajay!

    Chris Poteet on 02.06.07

  3. When I download from your link, I get the Post Information plugin, not the Persistent Styles plugin.

    Joe on 02.06.07

  4. Joe: Thanks. I fixed it.

    Chris Poteet on 02.06.07

  5. i don’t quite understand what to do with this. i’ve already made modifications to Sidebar.php, the Main Index Template, Single Page, and others. how do i use this?

    Enid on 02.07.07

  6. @Enid: This plugin is not for those pages. Here’s a scenario. Say you have a CSS style for some item in your sidebar, and you want it to remain regardless of what theme you’re using. You used to have to find those styles in the theme CSS and transport them over. Now you can “set it and forget it,” because the style sheet will be used regardless of what theme you have. Make sense?

    Chris Poteet on 02.08.07

  7. I am trying to implement this plugin with wpmu. that means some changes are needed, like:

    SORRY MY CODE GOT EDITED OUT HERE, I CAN MAIL YOU THE CHANGES

    some other stuff needs to be changed, I’ll mail you the whole thing when ready, but meanwhile I need to figure out how to automatically create the persistent.css file in each users director :-) (the path I gave above)

    AND I am curious if there are security issues involved? Could the user introduce php or javascrip or anything else that could be dangerous? How does the file get parsed?

    thx

    ovizii on 03.07.07

  8. Awesome! Please do send me whatever changes you come to. About automatically creating it…I’m not quite sure. Do you allow them in WPMU to edit the CSS?

    Drop me a line on the contact form, and we can work further on it.

    Chris Poteet on 03.08.07

  9. I dropped you “several lines” - hope they make sense to you :-) waiting for a reply - bye

    ovizii on 03.09.07

  10. Did you respond to ovizii’s questions? I also use wpmu.

    Thanks, M.

    Martin Cleaver on 07.11.07

  11. @Martin: Yes, and his finished work is
    documented for download.

    Chris Poteet on 07.17.07

  12. Excellent plugin! Thanks.

    Fab on 10.11.07

  13. Sounds like it does exactly what MyCSS (http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/mycss/) does. No pun intended, but do we need two custom CSS plugins for WordPress that work independent of the used theme?

    Christoph Voigt on 11.06.07

  14. @Christoph: Yes, they do the same thing. I found out about that plugin after I did mine.

    Chris Poteet on 11.06.07

  15. very handy, thanks

    pcal on 03.26.08

  16. hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    regards

    baron on 05.13.08

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