Title: Multisite banner plugin? Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Multisite banner plugin? * [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/) * I am looking for a way to add a similar banner for each blog on a multisite. The blogs may be using different themes and I do not want to change the themes since it looks like a maintenance nightmare to me. * After reading some posts about this it looks like the easiest way might be to write a plugin for this. * Some months ago someone answered there was no such plugin. Has something happened since then? 😉 Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619786) * No answers? I decided to write a plugin: * [http://ourcomments.org/psyblog/it/2014/02/18/a-multisite-wordpress-banner-plugin/](http://ourcomments.org/psyblog/it/2014/02/18/a-multisite-wordpress-banner-plugin/) * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619787) * The answer is to write your own plugin, yes. * Add this line to a php file in “mu-plugins” to [show_admin_bar](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/show_admin_bar): * `add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_true' );` * Then commence a tinkering away with the [WP_Admin_Bar](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Admin_Bar) class: * Or cheat like I do: [http://generatewp.com/toolbar/](http://generatewp.com/toolbar/) * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619788) * Oh, that looks very nice, David! If I had known about that I would probably not have written my plugin… 😉 * I did not want to touch the Admin Bar since I thought it was for admin purposes only. One thing that made me think so (beside the name) was the 46px height that looked hard coded. Did I misunderstand something there, or? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619800) * It’s not the admin bar, actually, it’s the toolbar, and it’s okay to use. * (See David’s post below “The Admin Bar is replaced with the **Toolbar** since WordPress Version 3.3.” Code says admin_bar, we call it toolbar, same headache as sites/blogs 😉 ) * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619811) * > Description > The show_admin_bar filter toggles the display status of the Toolbar > for the front side of your website (you cannot turn off the toolbar on the > WordPress dashboard anymore). > Note: The Admin Bar is replaced with the Toolbar since WordPress Version 3.3. * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619839) * [@david](https://wordpress.org/support/users/david/), i have been playing a bit more with this. At this point I am not quite sure what I want to do. The plugin I have written is a bit fragile since it uses the current state of WordPress so to say and not some rules. * I do not need access to something in WordPress that I can think of at the moment.( Maybe I would like search etc, but I can work around that with just a link to a search page.) * An advantage with my approach is that I can put the same banner on other places with just copy and paste. * Here is an example of that: [http://ourcomments.org/psych/zfsp.html?q=porges](http://ourcomments.org/psych/zfsp.html?q=porges) * I am trying to find out what I want from WordPress to make my solution a bit more safe. The margin-top in html is a bit tricky (and I forgot to correct a detail there right now). Do you have any suggestions? Or do you perhaps just find my solution a bit stupid? 😉 * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619840) * I just added the code to GitHub – without any instructions so far. If someone would like to give some advice I would be glad. Please look here: * [https://github.com/lborgman/multisite-header-one](https://github.com/lborgman/multisite-header-one) * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619860) * Keep it simple yes. If you have a stable branding approach (especially with other php apps) go with it, you may need to dive in and jigger the banner position in WordPress on a per theme basis. * So I offer the following snippet/guess to fix the banner vs body position (add to the functions.php of each theme)… * ``` function add_lb_banner_style() { echo ''; } add_action('wp_head','add_lb_banner_style',99); ``` * As for WordPress fragility – your way may have more long term stability. You never know; the adminbar/toolbar could get moved back to a plugin. But if you keep it simple, avoid editing core files, migrating/updating will remain more of a tinkerer’s hobby than a burden. * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619861) * Thanks, but I guess I have to go the same way as WP toolbar, i.e. modifying the html element’s margin-top. I just have to figure out how to best cooperate with the wp code. * Thread Starter [lborgman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lborgman/) * (@lborgman) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619862) * I took a closer look at class-wp-admin-bar.php and the rendering. I would need a hook in the end of the rendering of the function _render. That hook would provide a way to add something at the end of the #wpadminbar div. * And also a way to cooperate with this: * if ( current_theme_supports( ‘admin-bar’ ) ) { * I guess the theme must have the last say here, but then there must be a way to call back to the theme and tell that the container (aka #wpadminbar) has changed it’s height. * How do talk to the developers about this? * (I guess doing this gives me much less headache then trying to fix things without this.) * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619865) * If you want to, for example, override the default toolbar banner height with one specific to a theme, then put something like this in theme’s function.php I figure. * ``` 'add_lb_banner_style') ); function add_lb_banner_style() { echo ''; } ?> ``` * or * ``` html { margin-top: 28px !important; } * html body { margin-top: 28px !important; }"; } ``` * or whatever other fiddlings you need. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Multisite banner plugin?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 11 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-banner-plugin/#post-4619865) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics