Wordpress: Hardest Question Ever

**Babaganoosh** · 10-01-2008, 07:22 AM

Are you using the latest version of wordpress?

**cryptie** · 10-01-2008, 07:51 AM

can you change them all to a seperate catagory? make another catagory, cal it "old site" (lets say its catagory 54)

then in your NEW theme, you have "post.php" create "postold.php and copy your OLD post.php into there.

PHP Code:

<?php
if (is_category(54)) {
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/postold.php');
} else {
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/post.php');
}
?>

**cryptie** · 10-01-2008, 07:57 AM

oh, also forgot, set "old site" catagory invisible, and make all old posts a child of "old site" so they still show up in proper cats.

**gnarxy** · 10-01-2008, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by Babaganoosh

Are you using the latest version of wordpress?

not currently but if the new one has some easy fix or someone finds a way to do it through the current version I would update it in a heart beat.

**gnarxy** · 10-01-2008, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by cryptie

can you change them all to a seperate catagory? make another catagory, cal it "old site" (lets say its catagory 54)

then in your NEW theme, you have "post.php" create "postold.php and copy your OLD post.php into there.

PHP Code:

<?php
if (is_category(54)) {
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/postold.php');
} else {
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/post.php');
}
?>

The problem is that my galleries are getting butchered. Those are wordpress pages not posts. When you write a page you don't use a Category, those are only for the posts. There IS however a "Page Template" but I couldn't figure out how I could have a Page Template use a different theme than the entire site is using.

**FlexxAeon** · 10-01-2008, 01:26 PM

not really checking my work or testing it but something like this might be possible (unless the issue is not so much stylesheet related).... duplicate your old CSS file and then do an if/then in the header (kinda like what cryptie did) to pull the proper CSS file. Then also do the custom template if/then statement

again.. just off the top of my head but i'm sure something along those lines would work.

as i keep typing, i think it might depend on if there is a "template checker" function already built into WP

**gnarxy** · 10-01-2008, 01:51 PM

Originally posted by FlexxAeon

not really checking my work or testing it but something like this might be possible (unless the issue is not so much stylesheet related).... duplicate your old CSS file and then do an if/then in the header (kinda like what cryptie did) to pull the proper CSS file. Then also do the custom template if/then statement

again.. just off the top of my head but i'm sure something along those lines would work.

as i keep typing, i think it might depend on if there is a "template checker" function already built into WP

Yes, the straight CSS switch doesn't work I tried that a couple of ways. I can't find in the WP files where it defines what theme is being used. I know its somewhere b/c like I said that one plugin I found allowed the surfer to switch the theme that they wanted to see themselves.

I am trying to hack this plugin apart now to have it set the theme to the Old Theme for the old galleries but haven't had any luck yet.

**FlexxAeon** · 10-01-2008, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by gnarxy

Yes, the straight CSS switch doesn't work I tried that a couple of ways. I can't find in the WP files where it defines what theme is being used. I know its somewhere b/c like I said that one plugin I found allowed the surfer to switch the theme that they wanted to see themselves.

I am trying to hack this plugin apart now to have it set the theme to the Old Theme for the old galleries but haven't had any luck yet.

theme being used is probably set/defined in the database. and i'd assume the plugin you found changes it from being defined by database to defined by cookie.

the quick answer might be to install that plugin, then use if/then's that rely on functions/variables that the plugin uses.

and... you've probably already done this but, search the support forums at wordpress.org. so many people use wordpress, i've almost always found info & examples on some crazy hack ideas i've had

**Nineteen85** · 10-01-2008, 02:51 PM

Wordpress pisses me off on a daily basis

But it's like your first love, you can never stay mad at wordpress.

Oh sweet, binary coded wordpress

mmmmmmmmmmm

**gnarxy** · 10-01-2008, 03:13 PM

Originally posted by FlexxAeon

theme being used is probably set/defined in the database. and i'd assume the plugin you found changes it from being defined by database to defined by cookie.

the quick answer might be to install that plugin, then use if/then's that rely on functions/variables that the plugin uses.

and... you've probably already done this but, search the support forums at wordpress.org. so many people use wordpress, i've almost always found info & examples on some crazy hack ideas i've had

Yeah I went there and can't find anything.. frankly I am baffled that no one else has had this problem/asked about it on wordpress.org

I am right now trying to hack apart that Theme Switcher plugin code. It looks like you are correct about it being a cookie. This file is a freaking beast lol.. I'm going to see if I can make any headway.

http://rafb.net/p/pV3QlB90.html

**kahell** · 10-01-2008, 08:09 PM

learn new things here

**kahell** · 10-01-2008, 09:32 PM

wordpress data base is great

**gnarxy** · 10-02-2008, 12:35 AM

kahell is that some cryptic secret message for me to find out my answer? =)

**cryptie** · 10-02-2008, 06:07 AM

Originally posted by Nineteen85

Wordpress pisses me off on a daily basis

But it's like your first love, you can never stay mad at wordpress.

Oh sweet, binary coded wordpress

mmmmmmmmmmm

wordpress is hardly binary coded :p

also, gnarxy, I misread your problem, I thought it was posts. will post again at lunch.

**mona** · 10-02-2008, 03:06 PM

Wordpress is really finicky about versions, as was mentioned above...Some stuff only works in 2.0 and above, etc. and so on. So, I would try to update to the latest version first :-)

**gnarxy** · 10-02-2008, 04:33 PM

Hey, thanks everyone for the replies and ideas. What I ended up doing was a slight work around using the Page Template feature. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but the old galleries are intact now at least and not exploded all over the pages.

again, thanks everyone for the help and happy sales!

//Jared

**cryptie** · 10-02-2008, 05:45 PM

good job. guess i don't need to look into it.

**FlexxAeon** · 10-02-2008, 08:27 PM

clearly me and cryptie have boners for wordpress hacking lol

glad you got it worked out. care to give a quick rundown of what the solution was?

code talk gets me hot...

**gnarxy** · 10-02-2008, 10:58 PM

Well the major problem was I was going from a 3-column theme to a 2-column so first thing I did was take out all of my sidebar widgets and set it up for the new theme. I then made it so the galleries would fit into the main column but the posts for them still wouldn't work. So all I did was simply set the front page display of posts to the amount of new posts (with the new theme) I made. All my backlinks into the the old galleries look fine so I don't think its a total lost, google will still read the old posts, they just aren't displayed lol

I could be completely dumb on it all but I was content with the final outcome. thanks you guys again for getting the brain juices flowing it helped me look at it all from a different angle

//Jared

**cryptie** · 10-03-2008, 01:12 PM

it would have all been so much easier if you had posted the link so we could have seen the problem :p

were you using tables, were you using divs, was it xhtml comp.? did you break the wordpress loop when removing your column?

glad you got it running, put it through the w3 validator and see if it's up to par. (sometimes it's helped me find errors when my brain wasnt working properly

http://validator.w3.org/

**gnarxy** · 10-04-2008, 01:27 AM

it was all divs, and i was breaking it all b/c the galleries were wider than the container. Basically it was a two-column layout. So for the old gallery pages I made a template that just eliminated the one column and it then had double the space to use.

**ez12** · 10-04-2008, 01:39 AM

this is way to complicated for me..

**cryptie** · 10-05-2008, 11:56 AM

Originally posted by gnarxy

it was all divs, and i was breaking it all b/c the galleries were wider than the container. Basically it was a two-column layout. So for the old gallery pages I made a template that just eliminated the one column and it then had double the space to use.

not that you need it anmore, but did you try this in your main content div?:

PHP Code:

overflow : hidden;

Wordpress: Hardest Question Ever

Wordpress: Hardest Question Ever

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment