Comments on: Be Careful When Choosing A New Theme http://www.zanderchance.com/2009/02/28/be-careful-when-choosing-a-new-theme/ The Best Super Affiliate You've Never Heard Of! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zander http://www.zanderchance.com/2009/02/28/be-careful-when-choosing-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Zander Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:40:03 +0000 http://www.zanderchance.com/?p=803#comment-773 You're absolutely right - Had I planned this a little better, I could have saved a lot of time by editing the theme completely on the first site, and then exporting those changes for the rest of the sites. Unfortunately, I never expected the theme to put this kind of load on our server. Only when I dove into the code did I see the incredible number of redundant calls to the Database that could be eliminated by hard-coding some values into the theme. Furthermore, each of my blogs have slight variations (colors, logos, sidebar content, etc), so each theme does need to be edited once it's uploaded. It's proved to be a REALLY time consuming project. You’re absolutely right – Had I planned this a little better, I could have saved a lot of time by editing the theme completely on the first site, and then exporting those changes for the rest of the sites.

Unfortunately, I never expected the theme to put this kind of load on our server. Only when I dove into the code did I see the incredible number of redundant calls to the Database that could be eliminated by hard-coding some values into the theme.

Furthermore, each of my blogs have slight variations (colors, logos, sidebar content, etc), so each theme does need to be edited once it’s uploaded. It’s proved to be a REALLY time consuming project.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.zanderchance.com/2009/02/28/be-careful-when-choosing-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Andrew Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:32:57 +0000 http://www.zanderchance.com/?p=803#comment-772 Why not just edit the theme on one site, export it via whatever FTP tool you use, and then import it onto all your other sites? That'd keep the changes, while saving the hassle of doing it separately another 31 times. I know you are probably over the problem now, but it's an obvious solution that'd save time if you have the problem next time. That's unless you wanted different things to be done to each blog? Why not just edit the theme on one site, export it via whatever FTP tool you use, and then import it onto all your other sites? That’d keep the changes, while saving the hassle of doing it separately another 31 times.

I know you are probably over the problem now, but it’s an obvious solution that’d save time if you have the problem next time.

That’s unless you wanted different things to be done to each blog?

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