If you're primarily changing colors, Theme settings should be very easy to implement.<div><br></div><div>I would just enqueue a function that outputs all of the custom CSS at wp_print_styles, e.g.:</div><div><br></div>
<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><?php</div><div>function mytheme_custom_css() { </div><div>$mytheme_options = get_option( 'theme_mytheme_options' ); ?></div>
<div><script type="text/css"></div><div>#header {</div><div> color: #<?php echo $mytheme_options['header_text_color']; ?>;</div><div>}</div><div></script></div><div><?php }</div>
<div>add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'mytheme_custom_css' );</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Validating/sanitizing hex color values is really simple, too. For each setting, in your register_setting() validation callback, simply filter out anything that is longer than 6 characters, and anything that has characters other than 0-9a-f.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Tony Crockford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyc@boldfish.co.uk">tonyc@boldfish.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, but it feels like I might get a good set of opinions, so here goes.<br>
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What would be the best way to implement a style options admin area for a theme - e.g. so that a specific set of CSS values, could be easily changed by non technical users.<br>
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Things like header text color, box border colors, box background colors etc.<br>
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Every theme I look at does it differently and some respected theme authors say it shouldn't be an option, but that the CSS files should be edited (I think I agree, but have a client requirement for an easily changeable theme).<br>
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I'm concerned about performance issues, is there a way to have an options panel write out a CSS file that is then used, instead of having to get over-ride values from the database and dropping them into the header.<br>
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TIA for any help.<br>
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