Comments on: .htaccess trick to show Alternate CSS file based on IP

By: Mexa

Mexa — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:36:05 +0000

This is a powerful tutorial about the wonders of Apache.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:44:56 +0000

Looks good. Do you happen toknow how Iwould need to alter this so I can show a different page for people from different countries based on IP address?

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:57:27 +0000

Very nice concept, I will jump in with an alternative if I may?

Code the Administrator or Developer user type given the option of overriding the CSS via Database or even a cookie.

This is just from my experience. It seems you would need this function fairly often so why not write it in? An advantage to your idea it cross compatibility no matter what the scripting language.

My second suggestion is fairly self explanatory and would only be used temporarily so as not to unnecessarily slow the script down:

IF(IP=YOUR_IP){
newcss
}else{
oldcss
}

Good article.

By: Falcon1986

Falcon1986 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:52:55 +0000

Nice article! I just wanted to find out: does placing your CSS in a subdomain offer any performance benefits or is it solely for the sake of organization? Furthermore, since WP theme files usually reside in the wp-config/themes/ directory, won’t moving the stylesheet also make that theme unavailable for activation within the WP dashboard? (I realize that you can link to the stylesheet using absolute paths in the ‘header.php’ file.)

BTW, I look forward to your articles. Trying to work on improvements to my own site using your tips. Thanks!