Switching themes questions

  • Hi,
    Ia€?m planning a site redesign soon and have a question regarding switching themes. What I want to do is have 4 basic themes;
    Left menu / fixed width
    Left menu / fluid width
    Right menu / fixed width and
    Right menu / fluid width.

    If I understand how the themes work I need to create a different CCS for each theme. So far, so go. But I then have to duplicate all the other files and place them in separate folders within my a€?wp-content/theme/a€? folder. This seems a waste of space and time. If I decide to make a small change to one theme then I have to make four changes. Obviously Ia€?m not talking about changes that can be made with CSS, Ia€?m thinking more about the layout of the sidebar or something.

    I would also like to have a number of independent colour options, so a user can chose a€?darka€? with a right fluid menu. Does that then require another theme folder?

    Have I completely misunderstood or is there a better way to accomplish my goal?

    One a side note, Ia€?m planning to separate the CSS as much as possible into reusable sections and then simply import parts into the relevant CSS, does anybody have any advice about this?

    TIA

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  • Sounds like you need Alex’s style switcher. I use it on my classic theme.

    Thread Starter planetphillip

    (@planetphillip)

    Thanks, I’ll check it out.

    Another way is that you have only the stylesheet in the “theme folder” (and eventually images – if any) and on the top of the stylesheet you define wich template to use:
    /*
    Template: basictheme
    Theme Name: LeftFluid
    Description: 3 column fluid - dark
    Author: by planetphillip
    Author URI: https://yoursite.com
    */

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