Hi, thank you for helping me earlier with the date icon.
A more pressing issue has come up. I apologize in advance for this issue’s complexity and relation to a 3rd party plugin but after working on it for many hours I have exhausted all other options. I have nearly found a way to make the jonradio Multiple Themes plugin work the way I want with the three themes I want to use on my site – Celestial Reloaded, Encounters, and Luminescence. Celestial is the main website, Encounters is the “hardcover” front page of the journal and organizer of ancillary journal-related pages, and Luminescence is the actual journal entries and categories.
To illustrate:
Celestial Main: http://unbrokenessence.com/
Encounters “Blog Cover”: http://unbrokenessence.com/journey/
Luminescence “Blog”: http://unbrokenessence.com/category/journey/part-1/
There appears to be two blocking issues:
1) I can keep Celestial Reloaded as my “current theme” to manage the Top 1, Top 2, Top 3, Top 4 widget regions that are common to the Celestial and Encounters templates I want to use for the different pages (I used your guides and snippets to make little static showcases and show/hide the widgets per page as needed using Widget Logic). However, Luminescence’s side bar widget area is generic compared to the specific Left/Right ones in Celestial and Encounters – so I can’t manage its widgets “from afar”. I can’t swap into Luminescence without all my other widgets getting dumped out, despite the arcane tricks I’ve tried. It seems like I would have to manually edit at least one of the theme’s widget region code to make the system assume that the sidebar widget regions are analogous, correct?
2) I can’t upload a different header image for the “front page” on the Celestial Main Page and the “front page” on the Encounters Blog Cover Page using the built in way under Appearance>Header. As a workaround, I am trying to edit header.php for Encounters to hardcode in the header image I want but with my limited PHP knowledge (my experience is in non-web programming languages) I don’t know where to start. Could you point me in the right direction?
Is this insurmountable? Or requiring of so many code changes (aka time) that a redesign is the only sane solution? I am starting to think I should have gone with WordPress Multisite/Network for this setup.
Thank you
EDIT: I am using and keeping my tweaking contained in your provided child themes for each.
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