One website two themes

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Hi,
grav is really impressive but I’m still new and need help. I would like to have on my website 2 blogs:

  • blog A - antimatter + theme changes = mytheme_A
  • blog B - antimatter + theme changes = mytheme_B

fairly easy, but how to get them to work together, config/system.yaml permits only one theme. The second problem is that I need simplesearch separately for each blog, simplesearch for blog A and simplesearch for blog B, if it’s possible.

Maybe Themer plugin would be a solution but for the moment I do not really know how to configure it.

Thanks,
Marek

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Regarding the two blogs with changes, there are a couple of approaches, but the simplest would be to have a set of modified twig templates in your theme for each blog. You don’t really need to have multiple themes. Just ensure that Blog A has a markdown file called blog-a.md that uses blog-a.html.twig and Blog B with blog-b.md uses blog-b.html.twig. Of course same thing goes for the actual blog posts of item-a.md and item-b.md respectively.

On the serach side of things… this actually ‘could’ be done with a fairly simple modification to simplesearch to merge in ‘page’ level configuration options rather than just the site-wide plugin configuration.

It currently doesn’t support this, but other plugins do this and it would just mean copying over that same logic to simplesearch…

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Hi,
Thank you for interest, fast reply and help.

You present an interesting point of view, I’ll go this way to check how it works.

Regarding the simple search I’ve no idea how to isolate it only for blog A or blog B, any hint or example, would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Marek

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Hi,
your suggestion regarding one website - two themes works very well, thank you very much,
Marek