Running 2 themes within one installation

Howdy - I'm just wondering how hard it is to run 2 themes within one installation of Wordpress? I have one section in my blog which I'd like to use a completely different Wordpress template for..... is it possible, and if so, how do I go about it?

 

You can do it using child Themes (I haven't done this) or apply an ID to the body tag and serve a separate stylesheet to it if you're just going to change the appearance.

 

It's more than just changing the appearance, it's using an entirely different theme with a different layout and different navigation onscreen.

Any ideas how you set a child theme?

 

http://op111.net/53 <-- that'll cover the basics of creating a child Theme

For the page that will have substantially different content, just use a conditional statement that detects the page, then serves the different content instead of the standard fare when that specific page is served.

 

Hmm...I don't think I want to use child themes after all.

What I want is for one page, displaying one particular category of posts, to be a completely different theme to the rest of the site. Any idea how to do this (keeping in mind that I'm also hopeless at PHP scripting)

 

well i think if that section is a page or a post using tags such as is_single and is_page could help.

 

Hmmm ok...would it be possible to give me an example of how this code would be used to call a completely different wordpress template?

 

hey jake

PM me, I may be able to do this, depends on which pages you want to be different

 

for a page template: http://www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page

for a category template: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

not a hard job but if you can not do it, i can do it for $15.