theme within a theme

  • Hi:

    So developer has created a custom theme for client’s site, which runs woocommerce. The client likes the Porto theme for woo styles. Is there any way to integrate porto’s styles for the shop/cart/checkout pages within a custom theme?

    Thanks so much for any thoughts/help on this.

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  • Hi there,

    I’d imagine you’d need to somehow bring the styles that the client likes, and merge them into the custom theme they already have.

    The alternative would be to create a child theme of Porto, and customise the non-WooCommerce pages to look like the current site, if that is what the client wants.

    You could also explore lengthy options of dynamically switching the active theme, based on what page is currently in view. I wouldn’t recommend this, as it’s quite convoluted, although I feel compelled to mention that it is something which could be done.

    Thread Starter wickcheed

    (@wickcheed)

    Hey, thanks so much for your reply. None sound like simple options unfortunately, figured I was rather asking too much. To try and dig out the righteous CSS from porto and have them apply sounds rather nighmarish. This concept of a child theme boggles me for some reason. I can’t really monkey with the site designers code. Are there relatively simple instructions out there on how to create this child theme? Thanks again!

    Thomas Shellberg

    (@shellbeezy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    You can find some instructions here:

    https://www.woocommerce.com/tutorials/customizing-a-child-theme/

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