Title: Use same theme?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Use same theme?

 *  Resolved [suzy-tm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzy-tm/)
 * (@suzy-tm)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-same-theme/)
 * Is it possible to select the active theme as the secondary theme too? I.e. can
   we use the active theme but styled differently for one particular page?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-same-theme/#post-6080976)
 * Off the top of my head, I don’t know. I’ll set up a test tonight or tomorrow 
   and let you know what I find out. It’s an interesting question.
 * –David
 *  Plugin Contributor [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-same-theme/#post-6081046)
 * Hi Suzy,
 * Jon and I discussed this and we believe that your best approach is to use child
   themes. Here’s a tutorial on Child Themes:
 * [http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial](http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial)
 * Basically, instead of using the active theme at all, you would create two child
   themes. These can be as easy to create as making a folder, creating a file called
   style.css, and dropping in a few lines of text.
 * This is WordPress’ native method for handling changes to themes and I use it 
   on most of my sites. Each child is treated like a full-fledged theme by WordPress,
   but you can tweak it out without making any changes to the master theme.
 * Give that a try. It should get you where you want to go.
 * –David

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