Control Themes from SuperAdmin

  • dbballon

    (@dbballon)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Enabling and disabling themes from the network admin has no effect on the sites. All the sites continue to display their own themes. Even network-disabling all the themes has no effect. Installing new themes has no effect on the sites. They don’t recognize a new theme has been added.
    The only effect the network admin can acheive is to delete a theme. Then all the sites stop working.
    How do I fix this?

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  • Paul Barthmaier (pbrocks)

    (@pbarthmaier)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Fix, you say! What is it that you want to fix? What you describe is fine, it’s what is meant to happen. The issue is that Enabling a theme is not the same as Activating a theme.

    Enabling a theme in the network admin means that you are allowing all subsites to see the theme as an option for them to choose, but it doesn’t force them to do anything. If they like the theme, then they Activate it on their site. See the difference?

    Further to this, once they’ve activated it on their site, even if you deactivate it on the network admin, they can still use it until they deactivate it. When they do that, and it’s still deactivated in the network admin, they won’t see it as an option any longer in their available themes. Of course, if you delete the theme, it will stop working immediately, as you mentioned above.

    Thread Starter dbballon

    (@dbballon)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    So how do I control activation from the Network control?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Depends on what you want to do. If you want to activate it for one site, you edit the site from Network Admin -> Sites -> Edit site.

    You may want to read http://halfelf.org/ebooks/wordpress-multisite-101/ for some of the basic how-tos for Multisite. It’s free to download 🙂 Pay whatever you want whenever you want, if you want.

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