Title: Different theme for each category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Different theme for each category

 *  Resolved [Taryn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladytike/)
 * (@ladytike)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-theme-for-each-category/)
 * I’m new to WordPress, and so between all of the posts I’ve seen on this topic,
   I’d like someone to please tell me if what I’m thinking is something I can do.
 * I want my daughter to be able to have her own blog with it’s own theme, but have
   it on our main site. So, can I create a category for her to post her stuff to,
   and create a different theme just for her category?
 * To create her category theme (I’m no designer), can I download a free theme, 
   use one of the page templates from that theme, put it in our blog’s directory,
   then somehow call it for her category?
 * Thanks! 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [Taryn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladytike/)
 * (@ladytike)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-theme-for-each-category/#post-688816)
 * Sorry to repost this, but just didn’t want to waste a lot of time doing this 
   if a) it’s not the right thing to do, or b) there’s a better way to do it. 🙂
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-theme-for-each-category/#post-688817)
 * yes and no.
 * You can have a seperate category.php for your her posts, so that they are styled
   differently.
 * The bit about just using another theme, though is a little more tricky, since
   each theme has its own associated CSS.
 * You could, I ‘spose hardcode the CSS call into the new category.php
 * For instance,
 * you find a category.php from another theme that you like.
 * If the category that you want to change is numbered 3 then I believe you rename
   the file category-3.php
 * (You will want to check the codex on that to make sure, I could be wrong, but
   its similar, if not correct)
 * You take THAT themes style.css and rename it to something like daughter.css.
 * Edit the category-3.php so that you are hardcoding the call to daughter.css, 
   so instead of the usual:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/
   css" media="screen" />`
 * You would change that so that it reads:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://blahblah/daughter.css" type="text/css" media
   ="screen" />`
 * Upload the renamed files to the theme directory that is being used for the rest
   of the site.
 * The bigger problem though with that method is that your header.php, sidebar, 
   etc.. is going to be the same. Fixing that *might* be as easy as removing `<?
   php get_header(); ?>` and all the other calls from the new category-3.php, taking
   whats inside that theme’s sidebar.php, footer, header, etc,… and combining it
   all into category-3.php
 * Im guessing that could be done.
 *  Thread Starter [Taryn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladytike/)
 * (@ladytike)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-theme-for-each-category/#post-688820)
 * Yay! Thank you so much! I decided to do this with pages instead of categories,
   but your instructions were dead on and it’s working! Here’s [my site](http://ikenouye.com),
   and the “Desi” pages are a whole different theme.
 * Thanks again! 🙂
 *  [otternaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otternaut/)
 * (@otternaut)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-theme-for-each-category/#post-689013)
 * I think it would be great if a future version of WordPress could have support
   for separate category themes, with their own sidebars and themes, built in. This
   seems to me to be an obvious feature for a lot of reasons.
 * Thanks,
    jtg [http://jtg.us](http://jtg.us)

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