As discussed earlier, a very common need for Plone users is the ability to create sub sites, sectional theming, and URL-based theme switching.
We already looked at how to do sectional theming by using the CSS hooks provided by Plone using shortnames. Another option is sectional theming via the use of Apache's mod_proxy
and Zope rewrite rules. This approach will not be covered here due to its complexity, but tutorials on how this can be accomplished can be found at http://www.plone.org/documentation.
To make sectional theming even easier, a product named themetweaker.themeswitcher
was written.
This product is another gem written by the great folks at WebLion. It is described as a product for switching themes on folders (only those with the IATFolder interface
as of this writing) in Plone. It works only with theme products that are registered as a browser layer, which is not a concept we will cover here. Browser layer declaration is a more programming...