Theme Q – linking to another theme?

  • wellofdreams

    (@wellofdreams)


    20 years, 5 months ago

    Hi ^_^

    Every few weeks I change my theme – like at the moment, I have a thanksgiving theme. However it’s only the CSS (infact, a small portion of the css) which changes.

    Is there a way I can streamline things a bit by having, say, post.php in the thanksgiving theme just link to post.php in the default theme?

    Also, when people have themes available for download they somehow make it so that the theme is available to view as a fully functioning blog page – how do you do that?

    Thanks,

    Catherine x

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years, 5 months ago

    For the first part of your question, yes / no.

    At the top of header.php is the link to your css, and in the Classic theme it looks like this:
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
    </style>

    What you could do is take some css out of that stylesheet, put it in another and load that as well – you can load several stylesheets if you wanted..
    So you would put:
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
    @import url('url_to_the_mini_theme_stylesheet');
    </style>
    and in that second stylesheet you would just have the bits you were making different. That make sense ?
    You could then make several ‘mini-themes’ that could be changed simply by loading them second.
    If this makes no sense at all, do say 🙂

    Thread Starter wellofdreams

    (@wellofdreams)

    20 years, 5 months ago

    That helps a lot…

    The problem I’m having also, is the navigation bar. I tried using miniblog for all my navigation tools, but items like
    <?php wp_list_cats(‘hierarchical=true’) ?> dont show up, meaning if I want to change anything I have to go through each and every file and change them manually x_x

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