Title: Creating multiple post templates
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Creating multiple post templates

 *  [cardboardbear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cardboardbear/)
 * (@cardboardbear)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-multiple-post-templates/)
 * This is what I’d like to do on my blog, I just haven’t figured out a way to do
   it yet. It’s a news blog with some news stories and some opinion stories. On 
   my index template, I’d like to have a different template for the news stories
   than the opinion stories. I’ll differentiate between the two by categories, but
   I need to use conditional tags or something to give the news stories a different
   look on the main index template than the opinion stories. Any suggestions?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-multiple-post-templates/#post-597565)
 * Have a look at the [Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
   page in the Codex.
 * [in_category()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/in_category) in particular,
   seems like it would be useful.
 * It’ll fit nicely in [The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop).
 *  [rowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rokwan/)
 * (@rokwan)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-multiple-post-templates/#post-597736)
 * Is there any kind of multiple-template plugin that lets you select from multiple
   templates with a given theme, without programming?
 * Thanks
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-multiple-post-templates/#post-597737)
 * For the single post view? If based on category you can use this:
    [http://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/](http://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/)
 *  [rowan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rokwan/)
 * (@rokwan)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-multiple-post-templates/#post-597738)
 * That’s a really cool plug-in, especially for a blog. I’ll try it for my blog,
   but I’m not sure it’ll work for my CMS (onlinebibletalk.com — site is in drupal,
   but i want to move it to wordpress)
 * Here’s the thing: if my website has 3 columns, my main center column has a limited
   width. that’s not good if i have big photos, or if i want to publish a landing
   page (onlinebibletalk.com/ChristianDating) with no sidebars. i basically hardcoded
   that landing page.
 * I need to build a WP plugin that lets users basically select a template from 
   a dropdown menu when writing a page or post. Default template, No-right template,
   No Sidebars template, etc.

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