Hi all, I would like to have two themes for my website. A custom themes for the overall website and use the crisp theme for the blog section. What would be the best way to accomplish this? Thanks, Norm

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Hmm, I did this using specific css for the index page, and just used different css in my single, for a certain section. For example, see http://esolia.com and http://esolia.com/about .

You can see the repo here: https://github.com/eSolia/eSolia

From a static site point of view they just sound like two separate sites that link to each other.

Let’s say you have a file abc.html. In that file, you can add layout: foo in the front-matter and hugo will use that template for this specific file. Foo.html can be anywhere under the layouts path. This page has information. https://gohugo.io/templates/content/ So for all the pages that you wan…

Ultimately I took the suggestion of just creating a separate site. The more I thought through what I was trying to do, the more that made sense. Thanks again.

thx for this @sudharshan ! here’s what i did (and it works very nicely too!): using mike dane’s gahugo theme with config.toml having theme = 'gahugo' content directory tree: content ├── dir1 │ ├── _index.md │ └── itm1.md └── dir2 ├── _index.md ├── itm1.md └── itm2.md we want to…

How to have two themes for different sections of a site?

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simulacra10 October 31, 2015, 12:29pm 7

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will take them in and report back what I came up with.

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