Comments on: Change your WordPress Theme on Dependency

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:48:23 +0000

Hi all (long time ago),

I'm trying to change the entire theme depending on categories.
If category is A then I must use /themes/themeA
else I must use the current theme /themes/themeB
I mean, my wP theme is always themeB except if I'm showing category A.

I've tried to use your pluging but with no luck. I can change the theme depending on categories but I can't load the style.css (and other needed files) from the themeA folder.

I think that the key is in the add_filter function but I'm not a good developer.
How can I indicate that if have to load themeA then I have to load the full teme from a different folder?

Running WP 3.01

Thanks in advance.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:16:57 +0000

@David: for single-page you ask with a conditional tag: is_single(). Thats all. Please see the codex of this tag for more informations.

By: David

David — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:13:04 +0000

Hey Alex,
thanks, I may be missing something then , I do not understand yet how can I then assign a specific theme to one single page of my site. It is not based on category, user level or IP, just everyone going to a specific page to get a different theme than the rest.

thanks again for the support!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:53 +0000

Hey David,

yes, that's what the Plugin is exactly for.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:26 +0000

Hi Frank,
thanks for the plugin. I wonder how can I do to change the theme for just a single page. I have a forum on my blog and I want it to have a different theme than the rest of the site, can it be done easily?

thanks a lot!

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:40:25 +0000

If in wp_header you load from to
then you could put in each template file beit page/single/archive etc etc

No conditionals needed that aren't already done by the CMS...

By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:07:19 +0000

Hi Frank, thanks for pointing out one of the great new features in 2.8! I'm not sure how practical it will be for most people but with luck, we'll see some wonderful new themes using it.