Per category templates

Hmm, I’m not really sure why I never get an answer here, maybe my questions are too complicated? Maybe it wasn’t so smart to change from MT, I always got great support there…

In any case, after about 4 hours of digging on this I found a solution, but not an explanation, I hope ot helps out someone in the same predicament:

Create a single.php file which only contains this:

<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category(‘5’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single2.php’);
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single1.php’);
}
?>

So, if my single post is in category 5 it will use single2.php template and if it’s in any other category it will use single1.php.

So I got it to work how I want, yet I still can’t explain why on my other server the single posts in category 5 use category-5.php and not single.php template while on the other I have to do the above to get the same results…

Hope it helps someone out…

Chris

Hi, thanks for the reply 🙂

Sorry to confuse you:

1) the non-styling is intentional, I just want to create pure content and include elsewhere
2) http://www.natural-clothing.com/content/category/Static-about-pages/

this IS category view, I just had it configured to show only the last post. Now you see the last 2, maybe that’s clearer 🙂

Maybe by some strange coincidence, this single post:

http://www.searchspanishproperty.com/content/31.php

uses the non styled catepory template. While all single posts in other categories use the single.php template, like here:

http://www.searchspanishproperty.com/content/buying-overseas-property-using-a-self-invested-personal-pension.php

Cheers 🙂

Chris