Interesting, as I never thought of that possibility. I just implemented the opposite: allow the plugin to deal with Site Aliases, which is what I call what you have.
The confusion I ran into is that it depends how you set up the Site Aliases to work. In particular, whether each Site Alias remains in the Address Bar of your browser or is changed to the WordPress Site URL.
Let me do a little testing before I give you a final answer on whether it is possible now, and whether it could be added as a new feature.
Thanks for asking.
Thank you very much.
I would like to use different themes for different categories and post of each category. I have the possibility to manage my DNS and redirect everything to the same website/content. My idea is to change the subdomain to maintain the URL clear and tidy. I would keep everything tidy just setting the right URLs inside menu links.
Thanks a lot for the support.
I do have a clumsy solution that only works for two subdomains:
- WordPress Admin Appearance-Themes – set whatever Theme you want for the subdomain that is NOT the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings
- my plugin Advanced Settings tab – Theme for Everything – set whatever Theme you want for the subdomain that IS the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings
The above solution ONLY works if the subdomain that is NOT the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings IS NOT defined as a Site Alias to my plugin.
I did some testing and verified that the plugin does not currently allow a more obvious solution to your problem. I am willing to add such functionality to a future version, if you wish.
I should also mention that I have a similar situation to yours, in that I wanted to divide a new web site I’m building into several “sections”, each section with its own subdomain. I took a completely different implementation approach, however, with the same goal of having a different Theme for each section.
Home page is example.com, section 1 is a.example.com and section 2 is b.example.com, where “a” and “b” are the section names.
I used a WordPress Network (“Multisite”) with example.com as Site 1, a.example.com as Site 2, and b.example.com as Site 3.
I did not use my plugin for this.
I had a look to the Multisite option and it seems quite a good solution. I’m checking a couple of things and I’ll try with it. I’ll come back to you with a feedback asap
Thank you!
Hi, the Multisite option is great!
I have now a second problem. I kept the plugin active because I would like to use it for a subdomain site. I created a new child site from the network and imported my blog in it. I would like to change theme for posts in 1 category and for the category page. Your plug-in works good but how do I personalise the theme?
I tried to activate the theme and setup all my widgets but when I reactivare the main theme, the second lose all the settings.
How do I solve this problem?
A lot there to look at, but you will want to read the relevant parts of the Theme Options tab on my plugin’s Settings page.
As you’ll see, I don’t have a solution with the plugin itself, but merely some Workarounds that work for most people. It talks about Widgets working best with Method #2, which requires another plugin, Theme Test Drive.
Let me know if you have any questions.
