| Different theme per category/forum [message #16255] |
Fri, 23 January 2004 01:45  |
wturrell
Messages: 1
Registered: January 2004
Karma: 0
|
Junior Member |
|
|
I would like to have a different default theme (template really, not interested in changing the language, just the design) for each main category and its forums.
Is there a way I can do this? So far it seems that I can only have one default theme for the entire forum and then the user chooses which one they want to use in their preferences.
I want to be able to setup a new category for different sections of a website with different branding and navigation links in the header etc, seems a fairly obvious thing to ask for - any help appreciated.
Thanks,
William
|
|
|
|
| Re: Different theme per category/forum [message #16261 is a reply to message #16255] |
Fri, 23 January 2004 23:24  |
 |
Wild_Cat
Messages: 144
Registered: November 2002
Location: Odessa, Ukraine
Karma: 0
|
Senior Member |
|
|
It seems to me that such logic of applying themes would be in conflict with the user-preference based template selection. You have this or that, not the both ones in the same engine... As far as I understand. The engine where I've seen a logic you want to use was UBB but it's not a free engine, the more for UBB.threads to have the message tree (which costs a whole bunch of money) 
Although I guess one could hack the use of themes from per-user to per-category use in expense of disabling the users choice of theme (useless to have different themes for each category then anyway).
Yet, I think, it could be a good suggestion for the forum development to separate the templates and the languages in user preferences instead of using just one theme. Different messages in same language for different themes would anyway be confusing and why else to have languages repeating? (well, I know some encodings could interfere with one another while posting in a different one from other themes display, but the admin could choose the available languages I guess, and no need to reproduce all the i18n dir in each theme, they cannot be all used on the same forum for the same encoding mix ups possible on display if the board communication language is not English)
Lady of Avalon
[Updated on: Fri, 23 January 2004 23:27] Report message to a moderator |
|
|
|
| Re: Different theme per category/forum [message #16295 is a reply to message #16261] |
Sun, 25 January 2004 17:00 |
Ilia
Messages: 13241
Registered: January 2002
Karma: 0
|
Senior Member
Administrator
Core Developer |
|
|
If you have >1 theme that is active the users can choose which ever one they like. Having a different theme that is forced on users for each forum does not seem at all useful to me.
FUDforum Core Developer
|
|
|
|
Calendar
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
]