Each Cat/Board with its own theme

[ratboy3474r7]

I run one forum for several different projects/domains, and since Simple Machines themes seem to be fairly easy to apply, it would be very useful to be able to specify a particular theme for each Category and/or Board.

At its simplest, I suppose the forum admin would specify a theme for each Cat/Board.  More complex (and possibly not very useful) would be allowing the user to specifiy a theme for each Cat/Board.  [I guess it comes down to design philosophy:  Who knows best- the admin or the user?]

[Tyris]

I think this would conflict far too much with the current method... coz at the moment users select their theme... so unless you let them set one for each board... it wouldn't really work that well... unless you disabled user selectability completely.

That being said... I think it would definately be something nice to see as a mod... and one which I'd happily help write or something (I may end up using it for my forums... tho I think I'll just allow my users to choose).

[[Unknown]]

This is actually planned.

-[Unknown]

[bostasp]

Oh dear... lol Sounds good.

[Tyris]

whoa... cool ^_^

can I ask whether user chosen templates will be used instead of a default section one? is it choosable..? or what..?

[Tomer]

That will look kinda dumb, do you have the URl of wherer you saw it? The forum would look messed up.

[Tyris]

@ Lamper... I think you -might- misunderstand... each categorie on the board index wont look different... just the pages within them... if you knew that already then just ignore this comment ^.^

[ratboy3474r7]

This is actually planned.  -[Unknown]

That's great!  Thanks for the news!

[pulpitfire]

I already use this feature as a mod on YaBB SE.  You can make a different template for each board.