Title: Multiple Post Layout in a theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Multiple Post Layout in a theme

 *  [ashiquzzaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashiquzzaman/)
 * (@ashiquzzaman)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-layout-in-a-theme/)
 * I want to have different post layout in a theme and that’s WITHOUT a plugin. 
   The post template section will show in metabox in dashboard(whenever someone 
   wants to add new post). Unwilling to use custom post type plugin,therefore kindly
   don’t post them. How do I achieve this ? should I create new different single.
   php file version like – single-layout1.php/single-layout2.php files and do some
   conditional check or is there any better way ?
 * Couple of Google search results –
    1. [http://wordpresshero.com/tricks/different-single-post-pages-in-wordpress.html/](http://wordpresshero.com/tricks/different-single-post-pages-in-wordpress.html/)
   2. [http://www.elliotjaystocks.com/blog/tutorial-multiple-singlephp-templates-in-wordpress/](http://www.elliotjaystocks.com/blog/tutorial-multiple-singlephp-templates-in-wordpress/)
   3. [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/35415/wordpress-single-php-different-layouts-projects-posts](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/35415/wordpress-single-php-different-layouts-projects-posts)

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 *  [Sallie Goetsch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfangirl/)
 * (@wpfangirl)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-layout-in-a-theme/#post-6467230)
 * The template drop-down only appears on pages, not on posts. But if you want to
   have a different single post layout for posts in a certain category or even with
   a certain ID, you can use conditional tags within your single.php file to get
   different template parts. You would still only have one single.php file.
 * See [https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Query-based_Template_Files](https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Query-based_Template_Files)
   for more details.
 *  Thread Starter [ashiquzzaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashiquzzaman/)
 * (@ashiquzzaman)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-layout-in-a-theme/#post-6467282)
 * Ok, Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [ashiquzzaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashiquzzaman/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-post-layout-in-a-theme/#post-6467282)
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