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Persistent Styles Plugin

Chris Poteet, February 6, 2007April 7, 2008

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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Comments (30)

  1. Ajay says:
    February 6, 2007 at 4:35 pm

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

    Reply
  2. Chris Poteet says:
    February 6, 2007 at 4:41 pm

    Thanks Ajay!

    Reply
  3. Joe says:
    February 6, 2007 at 4:52 pm

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

    Reply
  4. Chris Poteet says:
    February 6, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    Joe: Thanks. I fixed it.

    Reply
  5. Enid says:
    February 7, 2007 at 11:38 pm

    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?

    Reply
  6. Chris Poteet says:
    February 8, 2007 at 2:14 am

    @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?

    Reply
  7. ovizii says:
    March 7, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    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

    Reply
  8. Chris Poteet says:
    March 8, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    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.

    Reply
  9. ovizii says:
    March 9, 2007 at 1:08 pm

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

    Reply
  10. Martin Cleaver says:
    July 11, 2007 at 5:00 pm

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

    Thanks, M.

    Reply
  11. Chris Poteet says:
    July 17, 2007 at 4:57 am

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

    Reply
  12. Fab says:
    October 11, 2007 at 12:27 am

    Excellent plugin! Thanks.

    Reply
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  15. Christoph Voigt says:
    November 6, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    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?

    Reply
  16. Chris Poteet says:
    November 6, 2007 at 3:35 pm

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

    Reply
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  21. pcal says:
    March 26, 2008 at 2:43 am

    very handy, thanks

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  23. baron says:
    May 13, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    hi. Thanks for plugin

    perfect.

    regards

    Reply
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  27. Marcel says:
    October 21, 2010 at 8:56 am

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

    Reply
    1. Chris Poteet says:
      October 21, 2010 at 6:46 pm

      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.

      Reply
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