DavidWinter101Hello everyone,
I’d like to (mis)use WordPress as a lightweight CMS for a few non-blogging projects - hope this is not seen as blasphemy. :)
These projects are basically static web sites. My question is:
I want to group (single post) pages by giving them a specific layout, ie I need to use multiple templates.
E.g., I might do a multilingual web site, and I want the English pages to have an English menu and header and the French pages to have a French menu and header.
What is the best way to achieve this?
I think an obvious route would be to link categories and templates. So: Is there a way to have (single post) pages belonging to a certain category ("French") use a specific template ("French.php")?
(I have seen in the docs that I can have category templates - but I understand that means a template for a "TOC" page showing all posts for that category.)
Another approach that probably goes over the top would be to do browser-sniffing and send a language-based "variation" of the post (i.e., a request for page "support.htm" would bring up "support_EN.htm" or "support_FR" based on the browser’s language preference setting. This would probably be unreliable and may not be possible in WP (or is it?).
I guess the last resort would be to set up multiple blogs, but that seems overkill when you only want a slight design variation.
What would you guys suggest?
Thank you for helping!
