Different CSS style for logged in WordPress users
Update: I wrote a theme switch plugin that changes the template for logged in users. It’s available here.
I like to tweak my wordpress theme. And I’m far too lazy to set up a second blog just for development. So I’m looking for a solution to work on my template without distracting visitors. I think one day I’ll write an extension that is a little more powerful than this trick, but it’s a start.
The easiest case is that you sometimes want to play around with your CSS styles. In this case, just add something like the following example to your template header. Put it where you include your CSS, and only logged in users will see your experimental CSS.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | <style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import url("<?php
if ($user_ID) {
echo bloginfo('template_directory') . "/experimental.css";
}
else {
echo bloginfo('stylesheet_url');
} ?>");
</style> |
Of course, you can be more specific than showing any logged in user the testing style. Just compare the $user_ID with some specific ID.
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This entry was written by nicolas, posted on 5. October 2008, filed under Content Management and tagged CSS, Webdesign, WordPress. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a web developer, system administrator and IT consultant from France, currently living in Germany. 
nicolas: Hi Joey, not sure what you mean. The only thing that has a background is the success + error message. You...
Joey: Hey Nic, How to clear the background of your plugin? 
Kar: Wordpress error log shows nothing that could be related to this problem.
Your plugin is great, I downloaded and use constantly, and this tip is also very cool, it would be great to have a plugin that already do this for us, but only to make the code really helps, thank you for your efforts in creating the plugin Theme Switch.
God bless you.