You would need to make a separate installation of WordPress in a sub-directory – and make a menu link to that separate site.
You can’t run two different themes at the same time on the same installation of WP.
Thank you so much I will try to do that
Hello again,
I did find some documentation on the subject but I am not a professional – so I am not sure how to make the first 4 steps in this documentation:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
if there is any simple language for the same action please let me know also if this is what you meant by :”make a separate installation of WordPress in a sub-directory “
thanks
You’d need to create a new folder (sub-directory) on the server where your site is hosted – and install a new copy of WP in that folder.
wordpress current site
new folder for new separate WC site
install WP here for the new theme
various files for your current site here as well
But this set-up will require you to maintain two separate WP installs and it will also NOT make the two sites look the same. So that will be more work and a lot of CSS modifying if you want them to look the same or similar.
Can you not use WooCommerce with your current theme?
thanks
no i can not use woocommerce on current theme apparently its not supported – my web site is:
http://www.orlyruaimi.com
if you can please take a look at my site, so what i want to do is get a free woo commerce theme for now that will handle my online shop. which i would like to have a menu link (“shop”) on my current website.
you mentioned ” various files of my current site …. I will need to know exactly which ones i need – i am doing it myself.
thanks again
You don’t need to mess with any existing files at all – I included that just to show you that you will see them there when you add a new folder for the separate install of WP. If you don’t know how to make a sub-directory install on your server, ask your hosting company about it.
You can generally, you can add a custom link “shop” as a menu item – see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links
But your theme menu set-up may be different – so you need to ask the vendor/developer of your theme – as commercial themes are not supported here.
I’d also strongly suggest that you make a complete backup of your site before you do anything like this –
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups