Theme-Making Question

  • JamesShijie

    (@jamesshijie)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hey all,

    I’m getting my feet wet making a wordpress theme. It won’t be for blogging, but will be for a skateboarding website, with separate pages that will be themed differently. It will be a lot like the wordpress.org website, with each “topic” in the navbar going to a separately-themed page. My question is this: What is the best practice to go about doing this? My custom theme has these topics in the navbar:

    Home
    Shops
    Videos
    Photos
    Products
    Team
    About

    So, I need 6 differently themed pages. How to best accomplish this? (PS, I know this is impractical to do this with wordpress, but that’s what the client wanted, because that’s what he was used to).

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  • @mercime

    (@mercime)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    PS, I know this is impractical to do this with wordpress

    Not at all. It gets easier per WordPress version 🙂

    There are different ways to approach what you want, some simple ways:

    1) Change style via CSS – make sure that body classes are added dynamically by replacing regular <body> tag with <body <?php body_class(); ?>>
    From that alone, there’s a large variety of tweaks you can make to each page in your theme’s style.css via e.g. body.video, body.team, body.shops, etc.

    2) Change layout via Page Templates and/or Category Templates

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