Comments on: WordPress Theme Switcher Widget

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:23:32 +0000

WP 2.5.1 and so far, so good - thank you for a great widget. A slight twitch is, however, an occasional theme doesn’t show up. The theme is definitely in the directory, and can be accessed/activated from within WP from the ‘Design’ tab. The style sheet header and the other files seem pretty much as normal. Is there a file that needs to be present for the switcher to be able to find the theme? Other suggestions?

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:07:31 +0000

Thanks for the great widget! This is exactly what I needed, it lets me add the ability for users to switch themes without having to add a section in the sidebar to each theme, which can be a real pain.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:07:11 +0000

Thanks for a really useful plugin. I was looking for something which acts as a persistent accessibility widget so that the end user can control the appearance of a site, something along the lines outlined by Paul Sowden’s AListApart article.
FYI I’m using WordPress 2.3.1 and everything works as intended.
Excellent!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:37:51 +0000

Thank you much, Jared. If you could email me when you’ve updated your great switcher to not show selected themes I would appreciate it.

Some people have actually visited my site for the sole purpose of seeing the switcher in action. But I can’t continue much longer with the Mobile Edition plugin disabled because I have a lot of high-tech viewers and they sometimes like to view the site on their PDAs.

Thanks.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:10:34 +0000

Hey, I’ve had this plugin installed for awhile, but just decided to try to play around with it a little. I don’t know much PHP, but I wanted to know how to define something for $before_title? I want to have little icons show up beside each theme in the list on my sidebar?

By: JaredB

JaredB — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:17:27 +0000

I’ll probably have to add a configuration option to allow omitting certain themes from the list of choices.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:40:48 +0000

How can I keep the Theme Switcher from showing the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin (by Alex King)?

That plugin does not support widgets (and probably should not, as it allows for viewing on a PDA), so when someone selects it, it doesn’t give them the option of changing back (because your I have used your swithcer as a Widget, and since the Mobile Edition doesn’t support widgets, there is no way for the person who selects it to return to a normal theme).

Thank you

By: JB

JB — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:06:34 +0000

You mention a file called “themeswitcher.php”, but this plugin isn’t distributed by that name, so I’m wondering if there’s a possible conflict there. Perhaps you have the original theme switcher plugin installed along side this one?

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:55:54 +0000

I’m getting the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_theme_switcher() in /wp-content/plugins/themeswitcher.php on line 42

Any ideas?

By: Thanos

Thanos — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:50:14 +0000

Thanks for the widgetized version that actually works with ease, it’s well appreciated. I’m no code warrior and prior to this I could not get theme switching to work, so much thanks.