Different theme for the Home page?

  • Resolved petermackinnon

    (@petermackinnon)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    So I have been reading extensively on how to use WordPress as a CMS and that is exactly what I want to do. I am making progress and I like it but I have one major issue.

    I want to have a “static” home page, so I used the Reading settings to set a page that I created as the home page, fine, no problem. BUT, I do not want that page to use the same theme as my blog. For example, I do not want to have any of the sidebar stuff on the home page. I am guessing I need to use a separate theme for this? Or can I use the home.php, even though it says I should not have to in this version?

    Any help is greatly appreciated…

    Thanks!

    Peter

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  • In theory, each Page can have its own Template so you can change the ‘look’ of each template. Here’s an article that may help you: https://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/24/using-wordpress-page-templates/

    But if you are really talking about a different theme for each page then look at this plugin for ideas: (though based on category):
    https://download.mikelopez.info/2006/10/17/wordpress-themed-categories-plugin/

    And don’t forget theme switcher plugins such as:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/theme-switcher-reloaded/

    Thread Starter petermackinnon

    (@petermackinnon)

    Thanks very much for the help, I will check this out for sure!

    Worked like a charm!

    lahoti

    (@lahoti)

    hey peter i was wondering if you were able to modify the category- based to page-based.

    I yes will it be possible for you to share the same

    wearethecure

    (@wearethecure)

    Hello Peter

    I saw this thread and I have a CMS website and a link for my WP blog but the blog has its own theme. I thought it was very difficult to integrate the WP blog to look like it is part of a CMS site I would be happy if I could just use the same header logo I have on my CMS site as the header for the blog. Do you know how to do that?

    Thanks Gary

    @mercime

    (@mercime)

    @lahoti and @wearethecure: I would suggest starting new threads of your own specially when last response was 9 months ago. Having said that, here’s some feedback on your challenges

    @lahoti – you can change look or “theme” of Page by creating page templates with your own CSS hooks and even using conditional tags

    @wearethecure – WP Codex is great reference. Google about how to create WP themes and you’ll get a ton of instructions too.

    If you want to change your WP blog’s theme to include header logo, that would involve changing some code in your current theme’s header.php. First, make backup copy your current WP theme. Then look at the source code of your CMS website and copy the info for the header logo onto your WP theme header.php. Don’t forget to copy the CSS used for your header logo onto the style.css of your WP theme folder.

    wearethecure

    (@wearethecure)

    Thank you mercime. I did create a new thread and I got no response over one day so I started looking on the forum for an answer. I found this and thought I would ask the originator of this thread for the answer.

    Thank you for taking the time to give me the information. Gary

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