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1. exit6
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hey, I'm building a new site and want to style posts in a certain category differently than the others. Different background image, basically. What's the best strategy for this kind of thing?

   Thanks --

2. mercime
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Create Category templates where you could add CSS ID's or classes etc to be able to style respective categories differently

3. exit6
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Right, that's how I do it for category pages. But how can I style post pages, "single.php" differently depending on what category the post is in?

4. mercime
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I see you're using WP 2.8. Unknown to some, there is a new body_class tag which will allow themers to add more style to certain posts. Check out
   http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-28-body_class-automatic_feed_links/
   http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/wordpress-2-8-and-the-body_class-function/

   There's a plugin but haven't tested it for 2.8
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-template/

5. Xamataca
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   In your single.php file using conditional tags:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/in_category

6. exit6
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Great, I'll look that stuff over. body_class sounds like a winner.

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