Two themes for desktop and mobile?

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I'm building a theme for Wordpress, that has a slide show which includes some special text effects. For this to display properly I need to make the page a fixed width. If I make it reponsive, it doesn't look good.

This works fine on a desktop PC, but I also need to have a version for mobile users.

My solution is to create a second theme, cloning the design, but without the special effects, making it responsive for users of mobiles or tablets.

I think there might be a plugin that will switch theme to the responsive version if being viewed on a mobile.

I'm just wondering if anyone else is using a two theme system for Wordpress, to switch between desktop and mobile users, and if so, what plugin are you using?

Now I know some people won't read this properly and will probably advise that I just use one responsive theme. However, I can't do what I want to do with one theme, so not really an option I want to consider.

If there is a more elegant solution, I'd love to hear your ideas. But certainly any plugin recommendations for switching themes would be great!
#website design #desktop #mobile #themes
  • I haven't heard of anyone using two themes like that. Usually that goes like "I have a static HTML site and need a mobile site", so designers would add another / design a mobile website (m.yoursite.com)

    Have you tried something like this:

    @media screen and (min-width: 600px) { /* ...tablet styles here... */ }
    @media screen and (min-width: 900px) { /* ...desktop styles here... */ }

    and you might take off the special effects when the user gets below a certain screen size?

    I'm not sure if this answers you question or not, maybe it will give you some ideas, just trying not to give you the typical answer (that, um.. ::cough:: I would suggest)

    BTW, Im sure you know if you do have 2 themes and need to update the site you will have to update each one, instead of just the 1 responsive site
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    • Hi, thanks for your feedback. There is no existing html site, and I'm really looking for a way to keep things within Wordpress if possible.

      I'm only planning on one site, but with two different looks, depending on what it's viewed on. So only one set of pages for content to update if needed. I've found this plugin which looks like it might do what I'm thinking of - https://wordpress.org/plugins/any-mo...heme-switcher/

      I'll have a play with it and see how it works out.
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    Two themes for desktop and mobile?

    I'm building a theme for Wordpress, that has a slide show which includes some special text effects. For this to display properly I need to make the page a fixed width. If I make it reponsive, it doesn't look good. This works fine on a desktop PC, but I also need to have a version for mobile users.