Different Theme on Blog than Gallery

  • ceruleansin

    (@ceruleansin)


    15 years ago

    I have a blog, currently styled with a dark, fixed width 3 column theme. LINK HERE The two testbed servers that I develop on (localhost and a free sub domain server) have zero problems with any of my code or the installs.

    Currently I’m running WordPress to power the Blog and would like to keep the clean lines of the theme I have.

    However, when I go to the gallery I would like to get the content in a variable width layout style similar to what I have with Gallery3 but that is part of WordPress.

    As you can see from my link, I have two systems running right now, WordPress and also Gallery3. The two don’t communicate and Gallery3 is amateurish by comparison.

    I’m a decent coder in JQuery, PHP and anything easier but I figured there had to be a way to do this easier than what I have so far.

    I’ve heard a great deal about “page styles” versus a “theme” for the whole site and assumed that this was a CSS method of altering individual page layouts. If this is the solution I will gladly approach the problem from that angle but I need confirmation before I throw away the time doing the research and coding.

    Thanks in advance to anyone that responds, cheers!

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    maybe you can use this to pull the theme to your gallery
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

    Thread Starter ceruleansin

    (@ceruleansin)

    @samboll

    maybe you can use this to pull the theme to your gallery
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

    Thanks for the reply Samboll! I’m a little confused by your suggestion though. “Pulling” the theme from Gallery3 would imply using it’s layout and css styling to create the same type of layout in WordPress for my gallery. Of course if I wanted to style my entire WordPress site in the same way that wouldn’t be a problem but I just need to style one page, the gallery.

    If it’s possible to pull the style and apply it to just one page of a blog that would be awesome! At this point I’m a little unsure how I would define a secondary set of CSS rules and layout rules that would supercede the current styling of a page and still only apply to ONE page.

    Thanks for all your help.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    I thought for the gallery page you could pull the wordpress theme to it using the link above maybe in the gallery3 index.php where the theme is defined
    instead of calling the G3 theme – call the wp theme

    Sorry I don’t think an easy integration has been made for G3 and WP
    G2 has a solid bridge supposedly

    you could also switch galleries to one that integrates with wordpress

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

    Thread Starter ceruleansin

    (@ceruleansin)

    Thats a great idea samboll, and if it would work somehow so that I could retain the g3 theme that I’ve chosen for the gallery so that I could transfer it to my WP theme for JUST the gallery page that would be helpful.

    The problem is that the WP theme doesn’t seem to be able to split into two themes.

    What I need is for my main blog theme to stay the same, but have the GALLERY button take me to a WP page within the same WP database, and somehow apply a different CSS layout.

    Do you know if that is possible?

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