I was wondering if and how is it possible in Wordpress to set a different theme for a specific category of contents (in my case the blog).
I'm on WP 3.3.1.
Thank you so much in advance.
Any help will be sincerely appreciated.
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migrated from stackoverflow.com Mar 6 '12 at 15:26
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WordPress can only use one Theme at a time. You cannot (and, really, should not) change Themes on-the-fly. (There are edge cases; search the Plugin repository for Theme Switcher Plugins for implementation examples.) That said, that doesn't mean that a single Theme can't output different styles based on the current context; and, really, that's what you're after here. The first step is understanding the Template Hierarchy; in your case, you're primarily interested in Category templates. The primary takeaway here is that you can use specific template files for specific category contexts; i.e. you can define a The second step is understanding the The rest becomes a matter of HTML and CSS, which is best left as an exercise for the reader. |
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You can either get into http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates Category Templates or use a plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/ |
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