WordPress MU

I've setup WPMU and the themes are working great. Am working on user customizations:

1. How can I allow my users to use their own logo for their own site?
2. The logo needs to be displayed no matter what template they choose. How do I do this?

thanks

-noob-

where do you want the logo to be displayed?
in the sidebar? easy,
in the header? then you would want to only use themes with a customizable header...

Logos should be in the header. I think it should work by making the logo a transparent GIF or PNG file that resides in a layer above the actual header image. But I don't know how/where to add this 'layer' code into the template.

How do I know if the theme is customizable? Aren't all themes customizable?

thx

There's a built-in function to make the header into one where the user can upload their own header and replace the one there. That's what is meant by "customizeable" as your users can't access the files, only you can.

So, if you want to make a theme and make it so the header is replaceable by each user, go here:
http://boren.nu/archives/2007/01/07/custom-image-header-api/

Thanks for that Andrea. That'll save me a wee bit of time later today.

No problem. I'm currently experimenting with it a bit to replace other non-headerish areas. :)

It doesn't look like it's gonna what I need. I don't want my users to replace the header with one of their own. The only thing they can add to the header is their own logo, which will maintain displayed if they change to another template, without having to reupload the logo image.

How can this be done? :S

okay, try this. Plunk the image URL for their log into a text widget. they then place it in their sidebar. it will stay there regardless of theme (assuming all themes are wdigetized).

I'm sorry, can you explain it in plain English pls? I'm so new to this I've no idea what you mean. Tq

Shes saying to have the logo displayed as a widget (in the sidebar). I think that's your best bet too.

Actually something like the following may work better for you instead of a widget. Put what code you want in there as well as the link and drop the file into the mu-plugins subdirectory. In this example, it'll display your banner within a link at the upper right of every page.

<?php
function banner_insert() {
$code = '
<div style="position:absolute;right:0;top:0;width:163px;"><a href="http://mysite.tld/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://mysite.tld/mybanner.png" alt="My website!"></a></div>
';
echo $code;
}
add_action("wp_footer", "banner_insert");
?>

"The only thing they can add to the header is their own logo, which will maintain displayed if they change to another template, without having to reupload the logo image."

tdjcbe - this is what he's looking for, not one logo on all blogs (although that was handy)

@MrBrian: thanks for 'translating' that. =)

@tdjcbe: It's not what I'm looking for but your suggestion will come in handy as I'm planning to insert banner ads on all sites later on. Tq.

@andrea_r: I don't think having the logo as a widget at the sidebar would be appropriate as I don't intend to have any sidebars at all, as the sites will have it's page links horizontally with the header. So having a sidebar just to display the logo would look odd, unless there's something else I can throw in like an announcement section (do such plugins exist?)

Is there really no way to achieve this? One logo on all templates? sigh..

thanks, u guys!

"So having a sidebar just to display the logo would look odd, unless there's something else I can throw in like an announcement section (do such plugins exist?)"

Oooooo.. actually, I just wrote a wee small plugin that does something like this. It can be used for ads, announcements... anything really.

All you'd need to do is put the function call in each template where you wanted the logo to show up.

what's your email?

grandsand [at] gmail [dot] com

don't laugh =P

wait till you see my gmail address... :D

thanks, andrea! works for displaying same info on all sites/blogs.

Am still holding out for a solution..