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Same database and content, multiple themes

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  • Started 2 years ago by jesseauci
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  1. jesseauci
    Member

    I'm trying to figure out if WP Hive will work for me. I need to operate a website that is essentially styled, or themed, differently but content is identical.

    So for example, I might have a red color scheme and a blue color scheme. One is accessed by going to red.myblog.com and the other is blue.myblog.com.

    Will Hive work for me?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. michel
    Member

    Hi,
    I should probably be the last one to answer to a question coz I just joined today and to ask something very similar.
    However if you only want to offer the possibility to change color schemes on your theme I would suggest to simply use two (or more) style sheets and short javascript code that on click of a button loads the theme you decided while also remembering the settings with a cookie.
    I did this once on a site and I learned it from this article on A List Apart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/

    This obviously only if your problem concers just css.
    If you have to change the whole theme then you have my same problem :D

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. jesseauci
    Member

    Thanks Michel. I'll look into. Is there a way I can specify which stylesheet loads by url?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. michel
    Member

    Well if you want to use different urls like subdomains you simply change the path to your style sheet in the head tag of your header.

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="red.css" title="default" />
    in the red.myblog.com

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="blue.css" title="default" />
    in the blue.myblog.com

    You probably have your good reasons to do that, however if you want to simply offer 2 styles you can avoid the 2 urls. you can simply use a button with the javascript.
    There are probably better exemples but the first that comes to mind to me is http://klubitus.org/kalenteri.php? on the top right it let's you choose among several color to switch color scheme. simple and effective.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. jesseauci
    Member

    Yeah, unfortunately URLs are the only option I have for my situation.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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