TWEAK WORDPRESS THEME? POSSIBLE?

[hendrix940]

Guys and gals, I appreciate the help. This is hard for me to wrap my mind around.

I have the wordpress theme and code to http://hoeggercommunications.com I want to take that wordpress theme and tweak to look exactly like my website: http://simeonhendrix.com/portfolio.html, expect for keep the portfolio layout and functions … I want to use that wordpress theme to easily update and manage my portfolio.

Any initial feedback is greatly appreciated and needed. Thank you. I hope this makes sense.

[hendrix940]

Yes, but I want all the functionality that is within the theme. I love the portfolio section. I just need to adjust the header area and the background. And it’s only one page I’m doing, just my portfolio page. I don’t want to redo my entire site.

[scottnix]

There are certain cautions you need to take when modifying a Theme directly, one of them is it makes the theme so you cannot update it.

Generally it is better to make a [Child Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes “Child THeme”) or if it is just CSS changes you could use (if you have it) Jetpack for WordPress installed, the plugin comes with a custom CSS section.

There is more to this, but use a child theme for modifications to existing themes.

[hendrix940]

Excellent, thank you. I’m researching child themes and Jet Pack.

In your opinion, when I’m setting up the theme on my domain, should I create a subdomain – portfolio.simeonhendrix.com and then install the wordpress into that subdomain? Because, I really only want the them on my portfolio section.

Thank you all.

[scottnix]

I wouldn’t, but that is only based on if you asked me to guess your portfolio url, I would guess simeonhendrix.com/portfolio

I also don’t like WP’s default files in the main folder, in this case /portfolio/, so I would actually install them into /portfolio/cms/ and then move a few files by doing http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install to push WordPress to the /portfolio/ by default without actually having the files lumped in there, totally personal preference. This becomes more of an issue in the root of a domain, not a folder like /portfolio/ but I would still do it. ;P

[hendrix940]

Scott, thank you for your time. If I was okay with changing my portfolio URL from simeonhendrix.com/portfolio to portfolio.simeonhendrix.com, would you still feel the same about the approach?

Thank you sir.

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