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Hide a specific theme from presentation

Is there a way to hide a theme or two from WPMU for users to select? I am building my site with WPMU backend but will be offering users to get their own websites but can I select my own themes to be restricted from users to use it?

Fri, 2 May 2008 16:45:09
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    This is a fairly good way of earning money for your site by the way. For ten bucks a year or whatever, a specific end user gets their own theme. They email it to you or ftp it up if you want to set up an account for them. Then you just install it after giving it a quick eyeball scan and then copy it over.

  • Adam W. Warner
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    I will want to offer this service to my users, but isn’t there some code that needs to be added to standard WP themes to enable them to work with MU?

    For instance, if someone finds a free WP theme that they really like, and I offer to install it for them only, what kind of editing would I need to do to ensure that it will work?

    Am I correct in this line of thinking?

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Actually it depends on what it breaks. Any theme that’s labeled for wordpress 2.3 or above *should* work. Only thing to do is install it, assign it to a test account and poke around with it to see if anything breaks.

    Any options within the theme (ie colors, text) should be saved within the blog’s options table which means, as long at it’s being saved with add_option, it should be scanned for any coruptable code. If stuff is being saved with direct calls to the database, you probably want to stay away from that theme.

    We had a list of things to get for on installing themes over on the mu forums. I’m on one of my locked down terminals so I can’t pull it up from here or I’d give you the link.