Title: theme within a theme
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# theme within a theme

 *  [wickcheed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickcheed/)
 * (@wickcheed)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-within-a-theme/)
 * Hi:
 * So developer has created a custom theme for client’s site, which runs woocommerce.
   The client likes the Porto theme for woo styles. Is there any way to integrate
   porto’s styles for the shop/cart/checkout pages within a custom theme?
 * Thanks so much for any thoughts/help on this.

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 *  [Matt Cohen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyza/)
 * (@mattyza)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-within-a-theme/#post-7722178)
 * Hi there,
 * I’d imagine you’d need to somehow bring the styles that the client likes, and
   merge them into the custom theme they already have.
 * The alternative would be to create a child theme of Porto, and customise the 
   non-WooCommerce pages to look like the current site, if that is what the client
   wants.
 * You could also explore lengthy options of dynamically switching the active theme,
   based on what page is currently in view. I wouldn’t recommend this, as it’s quite
   convoluted, although I feel compelled to mention that it is something which could
   be done.
 *  Thread Starter [wickcheed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickcheed/)
 * (@wickcheed)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-within-a-theme/#post-7723509)
 * Hey, thanks so much for your reply. None sound like simple options unfortunately,
   figured I was rather asking too much. To try and dig out the righteous CSS from
   porto and have them apply sounds rather nighmarish. This concept of a child theme
   boggles me for some reason. I can’t really monkey with the site designers code.
   Are there relatively simple instructions out there on how to create this child
   theme? Thanks again!
 *  [Thomas Shellberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbeezy/)
 * (@shellbeezy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-within-a-theme/#post-8133440)
 * You can find some instructions here:
 * [http://www.woocommerce.com/tutorials/customizing-a-child-theme/](http://www.woocommerce.com/tutorials/customizing-a-child-theme/)

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