can I save CSS values in my Wordpress theme without a MySQL table?

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I am a little bit of a newbie at Wordpress theme development, and I can't find the answer here or through much Google foo, so I wanted to find out if this scenario is possible.

I'm writing a child theme for Themetatic and I wanted to provide end users with the ability to change CSS color values and font family from a dialoge box in the theme controls. Does this require storing their entries in the database or can I just store these directly in the CSS file?

I think that CSS will be better option.

Hauleth
– Hauleth

2011-11-23 16:31:51 +00:00
Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 16:31 — Hauleth
– Hauleth, Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 16:31

Dunhamzzz · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 16:31:16Z

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No, you will need to create a theme_option that WP will store in the database and an interface for the user to edit these options.

There is a great tutorial on how to do all of this here.

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 16:31

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Faraz Kelhini · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 16:31:58Z

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No you don't need to store them in the database. you can do something like this:

html:

<a id="style1" href="?view=black"></a>
<a id="style2" class="current" href="yourwebsite.com"></a>

and put the following in the header.php

if(isset($_GET['view'])) {

 <link href="style1.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">

} else {

<link href="style2.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">

}

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 16:31

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Dunhamzzz Over a year ago

In this case the user has to create a CSS file, they may as well just edit the current one and not bother with this conditional.

Ace · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 17:10:45Z

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The way I would go about doing this would be by creating a Dynamic CSS file after the color/font values have been changed. Your CSS file would then be re-created to include these changed values.

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 17:10

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