WordPress MU

It's been a while since I have been active here (1.5 years maybe?). Anyway, I am in the process of upgrading our server here at the college and want to allow people to use the Options theme. The only problem is that I get

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_front_page() in /srv/www/htdocs/wp-content/themes/options/app/header.php on line 17

when I try to activate it. So clearly there is a difference between how MU and normal work in regard to this theme. Has anyone gotten this theme to work on MU? If so what will I need to do and will each user be able to use the theme's options to customize their blogs? Thanks.

So what does it say on line 17 of wp-content/themes/options/app/header.php ?

I'd change that, first off.

andrea,

We have

if(is_front_page()) :
		echo bloginfo('name'); echo ": "; echo bloginfo('description');
	elseif(is_404()) :

on lines 17, 18, and 19. In a standard install this function is in wp-includes/query.php since version 2.5. However, the version of MU that my sys admin has installed does not have this function. In fact, query.php looks a lot different. I have added the function in manually and will check if it works. The problem should go away once I have the sys admin upgrade to the 2.6 codebase. I'll report back either way.

I'd bet you grabbed the 2.6 version of the theme, but aren't running 2.6.

It also needs the is_page_template function added to post-template.php. Again, I would imagine upgrading to a MU based on something after the 2.5 codebase would allow Options to work without any mucking about in the code. However, making these two changes at least got me a page when visiting the site. I'm not sure things will work exactly as intended though.

Yes, it would. Like the 2.6 release from earlier today.

Or, you could download the 2.5 version of the theme.

Thanks lunabyte. I intended to ask the sys admin to refresh the codebase as soon as possible. Of course he is working on upgrading our LMS, which I also administer. I'm sure he gets tired of seeing my name on his caller ID.