Previous / Next Post, Use a Different Template

Ok.

You could use your actual home.php, or index.php as a switch with conditional tags to call different template files.

You need three files :

1 – home.php : you will use this file as a switch.

2 – home_normal.php : the “real” home template file

3 – home_paged.php : the template file to use when you browse next and previous links…

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1 – Copy the content from your actual home.php in a file named home_normal.php.

2 – In hour home.php, you use a conditional tag to include a specific template file when the home page is “paged” :

<?php
if (is_paged()){include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/home_paged.php');
}
else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/home_normal.php');
}
?>

This code tells to wordpress : if we are browsing previous and next posts page, open home_paged.php… Else, open home_normal.php…

3 – Make a file home_paged.php and use it to build the template you would like when you browse previous links…

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Of course, you could use conditionnal tags in only one “home.php”, but I find this technique cleaner and it’s more simple to make some modification : I f you want to change your normal home layout, you edit home_normal.php… If you want to edit the “paged” layout, you edit home_paged.php…

S.

I used this method as well. Worked like a charm. Thanks so much.