Single Post Template based on Category

  • Resolved lightfoot33

    (@lightfoot33)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I want to have a different single post template for two of my categories, and despite trying different plugins and code solutions, I am still not getting it to work. The solution I would like to use is one similar to the following (which I found in multiple places as the a working solution) but it’s not working for me. It always shows what ever template is denoted after the “else” line and seems to completely ignore the first two. Here is the full code I have in my single.php file

    <?php
  $post = $wp_query->post;

  if (in_category('3')) {
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-projects.php');
  } elseif (in_category('5')) {
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-inspiration.php');
  } else {
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single_default.php');
  }
?>

    I’m hoping someone can help. I feel like it shouldn’t be this difficult, but I am stumped.

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  • Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Just create the files

    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Post_Type_Templates

    Thread Starter lightfoot33

    (@lightfoot33)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, but I assume that would mean I need to create custom post types, which would change the navigation in the dashboard? I think this would be problematic since there are already hundreds of posts on the site and I was hoping to use code (like I tried above) to make it much more automatic and apply to previous posts.

    Thread Starter lightfoot33

    (@lightfoot33)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I figured out the solution. I have categories and sub-categories. I thought using the parent category ID# would automatically include all the children categories as well, but it appears that I have to actually list out all the children categories as well.

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