[wp-hackers] Share CSS with parent site

Stephen Rider wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Sat Nov 22 03:17:38 GMT 2008


Why don't you just edit the theme and add a regular <style> tag that  
calls the CSS you want?

OR

In the blog's theme, blank out the CSS, and do an @include to the CSS  
you want.

Stephen

On Nov 21, 2008, at 8:41 PM, Dan Gayle wrote:

> I figured out a way to do this easily. In fact, it was so obvious  
> that I want to hit myself upside the head. I'm already calling  
> wp_head() to pull in data from different pages, etc, so why not just  
> use  bloginfo('stylesheet_url') and call it a day? Problem solved.
>
> So I know how to pull something FROM wordpress, but how do I pull  
> something from the root INTO wordpress?
>
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Glenn Ansley wrote:
>> There are a couple of ways to do this. The easiest would probably  
>> be to just
>> delete all the style information in your styles.css (leave the  
>> theme info in
>> the comments) and then use the @import method to bring in your  
>> style.css
>> file.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Dan Gayle <dangayle at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running an installation where the blog is integrated into an  
>>> existing
>>> website. The blog sits outside the root directory in /blog/
>>>
>>> We matched the styles of the parent site with the styles in our  
>>> theme, but
>>> we would like to take it a step further. It sucks having to  
>>> maintain two
>>> identical sets of stylesheets.
>>>
>>> How is it possible to share one single css file between both the  
>>> parent
>>> site and the wordpress install?
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