Use this without theme

[pjebs]

Is there anyway to use this theme for a particular "section" only and have a different theme for the rest of the site?

It would be awesome if instructions were added to readme despite it being an unorthodox case.

[alex-shpak]

Hi!
Unfortunately there is no way in hugo to apply multiple themes.
Though, Book theme is designed to render docs and posts sections only, leaving user to render other pages, so your case sounds possible to do.

Hugo theme file structure is the same as in root of project. So if you copy one theme into ~/my-hugo-project and another into ~/my-hugo-project/themes/name it supposed to work, maybe with minor tweaks.

Steps would be something like this:

• Create new hugo project
• add Theme-1 to themes/theme-1
• copy static, assets, layouts from Theme-2 into project root
• run site with Theme-1

In this case Theme 2 will have higher priority in rendering
But then it will be up to you to manually update Theme 2 sometimes

It's up to you to decide to use Book theme as Theme 1 or *Theme 2, depending on complexity of other theme.

I hope it makes sense or helps you.

P.S. I'm not sure that is good idea to put it into README, but it will be searchable from now.

[alex-shpak]

Feel free to reopen if you need some more assistance.
Closing for now.

[pjebs]

thanks