So I recently started playing around with WP Multisite to get ready for a project I’ll be doing down the road. With Thesis 1.8.4 they’ve added better support for multisite, but there were a few things that were missing for my purposes.
Basically the model I’ve been testing is an organization site where each user has their own sub-site where they can put up various information, post their own blog etc.
site.com
site.com/user-1
site.com/user-2
etc.
So to that effect I want to keep the overall design and nav elements the same. This is where Thesis doesn’t handle things automatically. With 1.8.4 Thesis gives you a master control custom_functions.php so you can change aspects of your entire network in one shot (wicked!) however, the master custom.css does not affect all the network sites.
So I had to re-add the master custom.css file back into each of the sites.
function master_thesis_custom_stylesheet() {
$handle = 'master_custom';
$src = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/custom/custom.css';
$media = 'screen, projection';
wp_register_style($handle, $src, $deps, false, $media);
wp_enqueue_style($handle);
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'master_thesis_custom_stylesheet');
My next step was to change the header of all sites to be the same as the base site. This I accomplished by using the same code Thesis uses to generate the header, with one subtle difference.
function master_thesis_default_header() {
thesis_hook_before_title();
switch_to_blog(1);
thesis_title_and_tagline();
restore_current_blog();
thesis_hook_after_title();
}
remove_action('thesis_hook_header', 'thesis_default_header');
add_action('thesis_hook_header', 'master_thesis_default_header');
The switch_to_blog() function temporarily switches all details of the site (with some exceptions) to the master site and the restore_current_blog() changes it back to the current one. That way the site name, url etc. that the thesis_title_and_tagline() function uses is from the master site.
Finally, using the same technique as I did with the header I added in a master nav menu* to the site:
function master_thesis_nav_menu() {
switch_to_blog(1);
thesis_nav_menu();
restore_current_blog();
}
remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'master_thesis_nav_menu');
If you’re after a left nav instead:
function master_left_menu() {
switch_to_blog(1);
echo "<li id=\"nav_menu-main\" class=\"widget widget_nav_menu\">\n";
wp_nav_menu(array('menu' => 'Left Nav','menu_class' => 'menu','container' => 'div'));
echo "</li>\n";
restore_current_blog();
}
add_action('thesis_hook_before_sidebar_1', 'master_left_menu');
* You need to create the menu as a wp_menu in the base site first.