Today, while trying to customize the single.php template for a specific category I found a pretty old article written by Lorelle:
Creating Multiple Single Posts for Different tags.
Her tip is really simple and really useful: just rename your single.php
to single1.php
and create a new single2.php
with your category specific layout; after that, create a new single.php
file with this code:
<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category('1') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
}
?>
So, if the post is in category 1 WordPress will use the single2.php
otherwise it will use single1.php
.
I wrote a more flexible solution: check it out.
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