Global/Master Theme

  • Given: WP Multisite (sub-domains)
    Need: Master theme for LOTS of children.

    Make a change in the Master (or even a child of the master) theme, it is reflected on all other sites.

    I understand multi-sites, the theory behind them, etc. But this is a real need. If you must know, it was built this way to allow full site functionality (and admin) to ‘branches’ (for lack of better word), yet have common menuing and look & feel of a single site.

    I am researching hacking away at it, but surely one of you experts has done this before, right? ??

    P.S. Should I also post this in the less-trafficked ‘hacks’ forum?

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  • This is the default behavior of WordPress. If you have a single theme applied to lots of sites, and you make changes to that theme, it will be automatically reflected in each site. For example, if you change CSS or add a new widget area.

    You would set up each subdomain site to use the same theme.

    If you want all the sites to use a common menu, you can hard-code that into your theme and good to go. Or you can use a plugin that would allow you to share a menu across multiple sites, but still manage it in the WordPress dashboard.

    Can you be more specific about what you want to do?

    Thread Starter Bogus Exception

    (@bogus-exception)

    ancawonka,

    Thanks for writing.

    With 100 sites, sub-domained, I just want to change the CSS in one location, and have it used in all sites.

    Right now, I am adding CSS to override via the Customizer, but this is used to make a site unique from the others. I’m looking to do the opposite.

    It looks like I need to edit the existing Style.css (or other css) to create the change in look & feel, but this will not survive a theme update (that overwrites).

    So the need is to (as safe as possible) have one theme, all sites use it, and a change to the master changes for all.

    You see, all my sub-domained sites in my network are meant to look & feel like they are on the same “site”. That is, the user would peruse the various sites in the network, seeing the same exact theme, and not be aware that they are on different sites.

    Make sense?

    If you can make a child theme for your site then any updates to the parent theme will not break your CSS. What theme are you using?

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