How do I customize Pro once for all sites in my multisite?

[happydogsnyc]

I want to use the same Pro theme across multiple sites in my multisite. How do I customize Pro once so that all sites use the same Pro customizations? As opposed to customizing it individually for each site in the multisite?

Thanks!

[friech]

Hi @happydogsnyc,

Thank you for writing in, you can install and use a child theme to modify/extend the feature of the parent theme, then use that child theme to your sites. But make sure when you modified the child theme you follow the Best Practices.

Cheers!

[happydogsnyc]

Thanks. If I understand correctly, basically the child theme functionality allows me to customize Pro at the PHP code level while maintaining upgradeability. That’s useful, but it’s not what I’m looking for.

What I’m looking for is to be able to customize Pro from within the WordPress admin (e.g. via Theme Options), and have these customizations be used by all sites in the multisite.

For instance, I want to be able to set fonts used in the theme and similar options via the nice user interface provided in Theme Options, and have these options be used across all sites in the multisite.

In other words, use the user-friendly customization options as opposed to doing it at the PHP level, and still have the customizations used by all sites.

How can I do this?

Also, a related question, how can I set up theme templates and global blocks once for the multisite and use them across all sites, as opposed to having to manually create copies of them for each site?

(If, as I fear, this is not possible, is there a way to copy all the customizations done via Theme Options from one site to another site in the multisite?)

[friech]

Hi @happydogsnyc,

Thank you for the clarification, under Pro > Validation dashboard there is a Theme Options Manager where you can export your Theme Options configuration and import it to another site.

For the page templates and global blocks, you can save that as a Content Template (see Template Manager), then from the template manager you can download those content templates and upload it to another pro sites.

Unfortunately, this can’t be done automatically, you need to do the export and import of template manually.

Cheers!