How can I have a category with a second theme?

[queenfoxy]

ourfantasycastle.freeforums.net

To understand my request, this is what I need to do and why.  I was asked by an admin from a site other than ProBoards to admin his poetry site for him.  He is just sick of running a board that was more or less just dumped on him.  Of course, I declined because I have my own very successful board here at ProBoards.  My solution for him was to invite him and his poets to join my board, "Our Fantasy Castle." I have not yet heard from him but would like to have something to offer him when he comes to look around.

I have made a skin for the Category I named "Poetic Constellations."  That is the name of their present group.  I would like that category and all its boards to have a common second theme.  My question now is can this be done? 

I would need really good and simple instructions.  You guys have helped me more than I could ever tell you but I still need more help as I get into new areas.  I really appreciate you.

[Brian]

Only one theme can be active at a time. It's not possible to change a user's theme depending on which page they navigate to.

The only way to make the forum look different depending on where you go is to use code to alter the appearance of the theme you're currently on.

[queenfoxy]

Could you tell me how that works, Brian?  I was sure it would require code.  I know that once they are here, that special skin can be chosen by them from their profile settings.  Just don't know how I can show it to them when they arrive.

[Brian]

Newly registered users will have whichever theme was the forum default at the time of their registration selected in their profile settings.

There are multiple ways to change the appearance of an existing theme depending on the category or board you're currently viewing, but pretty much all of them involve the use of if statements in the layout templates. However, as mentioned before it's not possible to switch to a different theme automatically by navigating between pages.

[queenfoxy]

Guess I was just hoping for a little too much, Brian.  I just thought you could do anything with Css.  Oh well!!  Now I know.  Thanks for letting me know.  Have a great day.

[Kami]

Apr 24, 2018 10:34:53 GMT -8 queenfoxy said:

Guess I was just hoping for a little too much, Brian.  I just thought you could do anything with Css.  Oh well!!  Now I know.  Thanks for letting me know.  Have a great day.

I feel like there's a bit of a misunderstanding here.

CSS is simply styling; it is capable of styling content on a page, as it is presented. It is not capable of anything else. Having a theme change over to a different theme automatically is beyond CSS's capabilities.

HOWEVER.

It is possible to change a specific category / board, but you would need to combine CSS and layout templates to do so -- it wouldn't be "automatic", it would have to be coded directly into the original theme & template rather than being a SEPARATE theme.

So the essence of what you want is possible, it just would take a fair amount of work to accomplish.

[queenfoxy]

Kami, thank you for that.  I really don't mind the work if it is not beyond my understanding and if I could get simple, easy to understand instructions.  Would you be willing to help me?

[Kami]

queenfoxy, normally I would say yes but unfortunately I am super duper swamped right now both with work and personal stuff, and I don't want to commit to you unless I could for sure follow through.

You might have better luck posting in the templates board as this is technically a template modification, but I can't for sure guarantee it.

[queenfoxy]

Thanks, Kami and I understand.  We all have busy lives.  LOL!!  Kami, I am never sure where is the right place to post.  I sure do appreciate you guys.

[Kami]

You're welcome (: Sorry I couldn't help further.