HOW TO: Use Multiple WordPress Themes on the Same Domain
One of the most common questions we get asked, is “How do I use your WordPress Themes with the WordPress Theme I already have installed?”
There is actually a very easy method of doing this and it is crucial to successfully using WordPress themes to market your business online.
To install multiple themes, you need multiple installations of WordPress. Our recommendation is to install WordPress and the theme of your choice on sub-directories.
For example, let’s say that you already have a blog, yourblog.com, and you want to have a squeeze page that you can send traffic to and you want the squeeze page URL to be connected to yourblog.com. All you need to do is install WordPress and Squeeze Theme on the sub-directory (yourblog.com/squeeze).
If you want a sales page, you could also install a sales page on another subdirectory as well, like yourblog.com/sales.
You can repeat this process as many times as your web host allows.
Here is a short video of how to do it using BlueHost:
This is definitely the easiest way to quickly setup WordPress and our themes on your blog. As we mentioned, our recommended hosting provider, BlueHost, offers this amazing functionality.
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Hi Josh,
Congrats on the new SALES PAGE theme, as this will save so much time, and enable us to get our next product to market fast.
Q1 ) In the Video, Why did you have to => “Overwrite” the Original WordPress Installation you installed for
=> http://www.sneakerfinder.com
When you’re Installing another FULL Copy of WP into a Brand New Sub Directory, that you only just Created.
-> eg: sneakerfinder.com/Squeeze
There wouldn’t be any WP Copy in the NEW SUB DIRECTORY if you Only just created it, would there?
You lost me there.
Q2 ) So if we have 10 PRODUCTS, and each PRODUCT is on it’s OWN SALES PAGE, in its Own Sub Directory inside Our Original Blog,
Then Im going to have:-
=> 10 NEW SUB DIRECTORIES – PRODUCT #1 TO #10
=> 10 FULL COPIES OF WPRESS INSTALLED
=> 10 SALES PAGE THEMES INSTALLED.
Is that right Josh?
Thanks for your help
Cheers KiwiKev
Managing multiple blogs, I’ve had to take this approach as well. I’ve also found it extremely helpful to run multiple installations of WordPress same database by simply giving each blog a unique table prefix (instead of wp_, I use blogname_).
Wordpress MU is also an option.
Under the new version 3.0, you can create a multiple instances without new installation. Here's the tutorial. Hope this helps: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
This is another walk through video. A good one: http://wordpress.tv/2010/07/07/activating-wordpre...
Hi Josh,
I have to watch the video later but just knowing that it's possible to use multiple themes is great.
I hope that it's possible to do it with other web hosting companies besides Blue Host.
I hear only good things about them but not everybody is going to switch to them right away.
Vance
Pramodh, that WordPress TV video is right on!
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