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Persistent Styles Plugin

Published by Chris Poteet on February 6, 2007

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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31 Comments

  1. Ajay

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

    February 6, 2007 Reply
  3. Joe

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

    February 6, 2007 Reply
  5. Enid

    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?

    February 7, 2007 Reply
  6. Chris Poteet

    @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?

    February 8, 2007 Reply
  7. ovizii

    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

    March 7, 2007 Reply
  8. Chris Poteet

    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.

    March 8, 2007 Reply
  9. ovizii

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

    March 9, 2007 Reply
  10. Martin Cleaver

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

    Thanks, M.

    July 11, 2007 Reply
  12. Fab

    Excellent plugin! Thanks.

    October 11, 2007 Reply
  16. Chris Poteet

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

    November 6, 2007 Reply
  21. pcal

    very handy, thanks

    March 26, 2008 Reply
  23. baron

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    regards

    May 13, 2008 Reply
  27. Marcel

    Wouldn’t it be an idea to store the extra stylesheet in the wp-content/uploads directory so you could auto-update the plugin?

    October 21, 2010 Reply
    • Chris Poteet

      I would if I could automate the uploading of files through a plugin to another directory. As far as I know that’s not possible.

      October 21, 2010 Reply

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