Title: Post Template Selection
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post Template Selection

 *  [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-template-selection/)
 * For some reason, I thought I remembered seeing a little section when making a
   post to select what template to use for the post. Am I just remembering incorrectly,
   cause I can’t seem to find it. I know that if I want, I can add some PHP into
   my single post template so that if the post is a certain category, it will use
   a different template instead, but I was just wondering if there was the option
   to do it the first way.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-template-selection/#post-772102)
 * [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) allow for the designation of a Page
   Template.
 * For posts, you’ll want to review [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   and [Category Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates).
 *  Thread Starter [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-template-selection/#post-772122)
 * After reading those pages, it kind of seems (to me) that the category templates
   are more for archives, like, showing multiple posts of a certain category in 
   a certain way. I just want to have an alternative to the single post template.
   If I were to make a new template, exactly the same as my single post template(
   for the sake of arguement) but just changed the background colour to a red and
   called the tempalte category-6.php, would it load for the single posts that are
   in that category or only for the archived posts in that category?
 * I want to make it so this specific category uses the category-6.php for single
   posts, but not for the archives. Is this possible? As well, how do I find the
   category ID in WP 2.5? I have it so there are pretty permalinks, but I can’t 
   seem to find where the cat ID is.
 *  Thread Starter [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-template-selection/#post-772125)
 * Alright, so I tried to just edit my singlepost.php instead so that if it was 
   a post in a certain category, it shows up as such, and if it was another category,
   it shows up a different way, and every other category shows up as such. But it
   doesn’t do what I have set up as a test.
 * [http://think-theory.com/test-review/](http://think-theory.com/test-review/)
 * Instead of showing the text ‘this is a test review’ or showing the addthis image
   and links beside that, it should say ‘This is some generic text to describe all
   other category pages, I could be left blank.’ This is the code I’ve used, which
   I got from the codex:
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_category('reviews')) { ?>
       <p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
       I could be left blank</p>
       <?php } elseif (is_category('special reviews')) { ?>
       <p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
       <?php } else { ?>
   
       <div id="post">
   
                   	<?php the_content('<p>Continue reading this post</p>'); ?>
   
       <div id="post_footer">
       	<div class="post_meta">
       						<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
       <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="window.open('http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?wt=nw&pub=Saving Progress&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'addthis', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,width=620,height=520,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,screenX=200,screenY=100,left=200,top=100'); return false;" title="Bookmark and Share" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" class='addthis' width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a>
       <!-- AddThis Button END --> <span class="dot">&sdot;</span> <?php if(function_exists('wp_email')) { ?> <?php email_link(); ?> <span class="dot">&sdot;</span> <?php } ?> <?php if(function_exists('wp_print')) { ?> <?php print_link(); ?><?php } ?>
       					</div>
       </div>
       </div>
   
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * Any ideas on what I’ve done wrong?

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