Mixing themes

  • agabob

    (@agabob)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Tell me if this is an idiotic question but ,,,,;
    I’m using classipress so first page is ad listings, then is gallery, blog etc
    Theme has narrow middle part and one sidebar on the right.
    If I want to add another page for something new, can I actually use different theme?
    I need more space on page and looking to add directory later too so need to know ahead how that works with wordpress to have different looks, scripts between the pages?
    Thank you for your patience 🙂

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  • martcol

    (@hotmale)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    You can change your page by using a page template within your existing theme. You should take a look at building a child theme.

    There’s a free course on lynda.com called WordPress Essential Training. There’s a section in there about using page templates which you might find helpful. The whole course is good.

    Thread Starter agabob

    (@agabob)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Is playing with page template gonna mess up the whole theme?
    I will need directory too so it will need custom theme with script anyway 🙁
    Downloaded plugin for child theme to have a look. Just a bit scared to do anything destructive

    martcol

    (@hotmale)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    If you use a child theme then any damage you do can be easily undone.

    Child themes are so easy that a plugin hardly seems worth it although you need FTP access to your site. It’s a question of making a styl.css file with a properly formed comment at the top and adding a functions.php file.

    Or feel free to use the plugin.

    Once you set up your child theme you can drop any edited page templates in there. If you muck up, you can just delete the file or reverse your edits.

    Thread Starter agabob

    (@agabob)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    hmm…my knowledge of css is as far as copy and paste stuff. 🙁

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