Title: retrieve layout
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# retrieve layout

 *  [Tim Rogers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stealingisbad/)
 * (@stealingisbad)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-layout/)
 * HI.
    I’m working in comicpress and will have 3 comics in my site, one of them
   will be a graphic novel so I need to change the layout for that particular category
   to “graphic novel” , which is a preset in the theme. I have no knowledge of CSS
   but after reading some posts and tutorials I figure the best way to go would 
   be to make a category template and call the layout, however I can’t script CSS,
   heres the idea…
 * category-slug.php
 * if category = “x” {
    layout = graphic novel layout.
 * my questions are:
    Is this the best way to go for it? will it work? how should
   I call the graphic novel layout? where can I find out its instance name (or whatever
   is used to call it). If its only a couple of lines, could someone write it for
   me?
 * Thank you.

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 *  Thread Starter [Tim Rogers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stealingisbad/)
 * (@stealingisbad)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-layout/#post-2138869)
 * well I’ve done this all by myself without knowing CSS.
    I’d like to share it 
   since there’s not a clean answer anywhere except: “learn CSS/templates”
 * What I did was:
 * Open up funcitons.php and find out the name of the layout.
    Copy it close, then
   open up single.php After the get header function write”
 * $post = $wp_query->post;
 * if (in_category(‘5’)) {
    $comicpress_themeinfo[‘cp_theme_layout’] = ‘lgn’;
 * of course substitute 5 for the ID for your category and lgn for whichever layout
   you want for it
 * Save and close. Enjoy.
 * Thanks to everyone who replied (lol).

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-layout/#post-2138869)
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