I was wondering if and how is it possible in WordPress to set a different theme for a specific category of contents (in my case the blog).
I’m on WP 3.3.1.
Thank you so much in advance.
Any help will be sincerely appreciated.
setting a different theme for specific category in wordpress
WordPress can only use one Theme at a time. You cannot (and, really, should not) change Themes on-the-fly. (There are edge cases; search the Plugin repository for Theme Switcher Plugins for implementation examples.)
That said, that doesn’t mean that a single Theme can’t output different styles based on the current context; and, really, that’s what you’re after here.
The first step is understanding the Template Hierarchy; in your case, you’re primarily interested in Category templates. The primary takeaway here is that you can use specific template files for specific category contexts; i.e. you can define a
category-foobar.phptemplate file to output the Foobar category archive index.The second step is understanding the
body_class()template tag, and the context-specific CSS classes that this tag adds to the HTML<body>tag. The primary takeaway here is that WordPress will add category-specific CSS classes to the HTML<body>tag for specific category contexts; i.e. WordPress will addcategoryandcategory-foobaras classes on the Foobar category archive index, which you can target via CSS with e.g.body.category-foobar.The rest becomes a matter of HTML and CSS, which is best left as an exercise for the reader.