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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:44:31+00:00

I have a theme in which there are numerous options, like:- Setting Theme Type

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I have a theme in which there are numerous options, like:-

  • Setting Theme Type among many available
  • Setting Body Background Color & Image
  • Setting Header & Footer Images
  • Setting General Font Face, Size & Color
  • Setting Text Area Background Color, and Font Face & Font Color
  • Setting Form Area Background Color & Rounder Corners option
  • Setting Form Element Background Color, and Font Face & Font Color
  • Setting Link Default Color, Hover Color & Visited Color, with / without decoration
  • Providing options to upload any number of Images to be used in the user’s blog
  • and many more…

Can anybody please provide any info as to how this can be done in a best possible way, using custom PHP & jQuery?
I’m also open to other ways around.

EDIT:-
I have got some 12 themes all worked out, along with their own style sheets defined & icon packs. I have also got them to load upon each of the customer’s personal taste. What I don’t know is that how to manage the changes made to the customer’s theme choice by that customer from his own account? This has to take effect both the times :-

  • when the customer is making / loading the changes from his account
  • when the customer is viewing his account along with the changes

BTW, many many thanks for such a quick response, by two users & letting me know about my incomplete question.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try something like this:

    <?php

    function template($file, $data = array())
    {
        ob_start();
        extract($data);
        include_once 'path/to/theme/folder/' . $file . '.php';
        return ob_get_clean();
    }


    // Assign values to the template file
    $values['theme_type'] = 'default';
    $values['bg_color'] = '#FFFFFF';
    $values['bg_image'] = 'path/to/bg/image.jpg';
    $values['font_face'] = 'Tahoma, Arial, Verdana';
    $values['font_size'] = '12px';
    $values['font_color'] = '#000000';
    // And so on...

    // Output template file
    echo template('theme_layout', $values);

?>

    And the theme_layout.php file in 'path/to/theme/folder/theme_layout.php' should look like this:

    <html>
<head>
    <title>Theme Name</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        body {
            background-color: <?php echo $bg_color; ?>;
            background-image: url(<?php echo $bg_image; ?>);
            font-family: <?php echo $font_face; ?>;
            font-size: <?php echo $font_size; ?>;
            font-color: <?php echo $font_color; ?>;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

    Theme type is: <?php echo $theme_type; ?>

</body>
</html>

    Update

    You are right that was only the concept, here’s what you have to do: Add new table in database user_themes for example and save all user related values there. For example user enters the admin page and sees a theme options like BG Color/Image, Font Name/Size/Color and enters his own values there… Form is submitted and values are saved in the database. Then during the theme display (where I assigned values to the template files) you get user entered theme options from database and assign as a theme values.

    I really don’t understand where jQuery should be used here, maybe in the form where user submits his options.

    Hope this is helpful.

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