Dietmar Georg asks:
What is the easiest way to have two different WordPress themes on one WordPress blog (say the blog is 50% for recipes and 50% for photography). Any advice?
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Hello, the following link can help you with a possible option:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-themes-one-site
Installing multiple blogs:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
This might interest you too as an option. It is a plugin for WordPress called WordPress Theme switcher reloaded.
http://themebot.com/webmaster-tools/1-wordpress-theme-switcher-reloaded
No, not realisitically possible or advisable. It will cause multiple headaches, I assure you. The far easier option would be to install multiple copies of wordpress, since I assume your photography bit would be a subsection of the blog?
You can easily upload another copy of wordpress into a sub-directory, then just give it the same database details as the main one, being sure to assign it a different db prefix (ie, call it photos_ instead of wp_)
Unless youre talking about wordpress.com, in which none of this is possible at all.
You might take a look at post formats. Here’s an explanation of what they are.
Here, Ryan Imel of WPCandy explains how he created one.
This is the MicroSite in question (the subject matter of the tutorial above. And this is another “site within a site” on the same main site, WPCandy.
And here, the guys at DigWP give another tutorial on using Post Formats.
That’s a good idea, but won’t actually let you use two themes. He would need to code one theme *into* the other for specified post format. That would work, but probably too complicated for average user. Really easiest just to install another WP.
Change CSS Styles with Different Categories in WordPress
http://wpshout.com/change-css-styles-with-different-categories-in-wordpress/
have to design first and then apply the code so that the design will change according to category?
You can have multiple themes installed and give visitors an option to chose one with a plugin like theme switcher, but that also applies to the whole blog not to pages.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-themes
WordPress Themed Categories Plugin
http://download.mikelopez.com/2006/10/17/wordpress-themed-categories-plugin/
as subcategory
http://www.uniqueblogdesigns.com/how-to-use-multiple-wordpress-themes-on-the-same-domain/
How to run two different themes on the main site and subdomain
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-run-two-different-themes-on-the-main-site-and-subdomain