Allows site visitors to choose the skin they use to view your site. Supplies a simple dropdown field that can be added to each skin. User can then select the skin. The site admininistrator can select which skins to allow. Feed skins are never allowed.
There is a plugin by the Japanese community that does a similar thing in a different way. It is called NP_SkinSwitcher.
| General Plugin info | |
|---|---|
| Author: | Frank Truscott |
| Current Version: | 1.02 |
| Download: | NP_SkinChooser zip 6kB |
| Code: | N/A |
| Demo: | Demo |
| Forum Thread: | Here |
If upgrading from the 0.1b (beta) release to a regular 1.x release, you will need to uninstall the 0.1b version, then install the new version. Visitors will need to re-select their preferred skin as the cookies are now handled differently.
To upgrade from 1.0 to 1.0x, simply replace the old files with the new ones.
Just select the skins that should be made available to your users using the form on the admin page for NP_SkinChooser. Then add the <%SkinChooser%> skin variable to your available skins (sidebar, header, etc…) as appropriate.
The user will be presented with the blog's default skin when he first visits the site, as normal. If he selects a different skin, he will see the blog using that skin. His preference is stored in a cookie, so the next time he visits from that browser, he will see his preferred skin.
New to version 1.0:
The list of available skins is now set per blog, as well as a couple new options. The site administrator(s) can manage a blog called 'All' which acts as a site-wide limit to available skins and options. The site admins and the blog admins for a given blog can maintain the options and available skins for that blog.
The following rules apply:
If there is interest in this plugin, I would consider adding any of the following (I also welcome contributions, ideas and/or code, from anyone. Please contribute on the forum thread.):