[wp-hackers] Themes Switcher

[Ryan Boren]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:28 -0700, Craig Hartel wrote: 
> If a theme has a stylesheet for NN4 and maybe a couple of IE versions, as well 
> as one for printing, would there have to be another field(s) to import those 
> style sheets?

Currently, bloginfo('stylsheet_url') resolves to the currently active
stylesheet.  Let us take a theme named "Leather and Red Licorice" as an
example.  stylesheet_url might resolve as:

http://steadylovinman.com/bodypress/wp-
content/themes/leatherandredlicorice/style.css

Now, if the "Leather and Red Licorice" theme also wants to provide
ie4masochists.css and foxybrowser.css, we might want to add a
stylesheet_dir setting to bloginfo that resolves to
http://steadylovinman.com/bodypress/wp-
content/themes/leatherandredlicorice/.  The index.php for the theme
could then import bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')/ie4masochists.css and
bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')/foxybrowser.css.  If someone decides
that the LaRL theme is too heavy and creates a lighter, slicker theme
called "Water Based Lubricant" which uses the templates from LaRL, the
WBL theme would provide replacements for style.css, ie4masochists.css,
and foxybrowser.css.  Once this theme is active, stylesheet_url will
resolve to http://steadylovinman.com/bodypress/wp-
content/themes/waterbasedlubricant/style.css and stylesheet_directory
will resolve to http://steadylovinman.com/bodypress/wp-
content/themes/waterbasedlubricant.  Thus, the templates from LaRL will
automagically pick up all of the stylesheets from WBL.

So, we just need to add bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').

And someone needs to create Leather and Red Licorice and Water Based
Lubricant themes for Kubrick. :-)

Ryan