Two separate themes needed on same site

  • Hi all,

    We currently have two themes for our news / events website. One is a theme called Newsmag (visual composer included, etc) whilst the other is a custom theme designed by an agency.

    Our wish is to have the news part of the site on the Newsmag theme, with the event pages running off the custom theme. As I understand it, we have three options. Break and merge the themes, run the events off a separate WP installation (sub-domain or otherwise), run the custom theme as a ‘child’ theme or run some kind of multi-theme plugin.

    I’m worried of doing the latter as plugins can quickly go outdated or development might stop which would bring us back to square one. The first option would also be time-consuming and costly. I’ve been advised that running a sub-domain could hurt our SEO, although I’m apprehensive as I believe this to be an archaic view of SEO as Google now doesn’t care about sub-domains or sub-directories.

    Could anyone advise as to the best way to handle this? Thanks.

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  • hello,
    You can merge both themes or..

    For your custom theme made this as a child theme of ‘Newsmag’ theme and then create page templates in child theme. In this way you will get functionality of both themes. Then Use your new child theme as default theme. On event pages, use custom page templates to show different layout or functionalities from your child theme.

    Thread Starter olivermcquitty

    (@olivermcquitty)

    Hi Sajid, thanks for your reply. This makes sense to me also, so thank you for your help!

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