Wordpress：多个儿童主题

Question

I have a premium theme on my Wordpress website, and already have set a child theme, which is inheriting files from the parent theme.

Now I would like to enable another child theme to be completely independent of the main theme, but using the same Wordpress database.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

Bruno, you can't have multiple themes active at the same time.

You can create a separate child theme using the same parent theme. You can only have one active at a time though. Here is how you do that.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by

another child theme to be completely independent of the main theme

If it's independent of a parent them, then it's not a child theme. and when you say

but using the same Wordpress database

I'm also not sure what you mean. You can easily change Wordpress themes on a single Wordpress installation.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

If its still relevant for anyone, ABSOLUTELY - you can. Thats a great way to remove a clutter of multiple themes and headaches associated with multiple code styles. Just add a new functions.php in each child and a new style.css ... then in my research I was able to also recreate folder hierarchy for page templates.

Now in the past - owing to my limited knowledge Ive still changed a couple files in the mother theme because I could not drag that privilege over to the child folder.

So that could become a limitation.

I also learnt that if the theme operates fancy with options - you dont even need children. You can have the different options going on different sub domains and theyll be saved in respective tables.