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1. Jonathan Dingman
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Is there a way to change the color scheme or design template of wordpress when switching to a specific category? Such as a category called temp1 and it having a different template than the home page. Is that possible?

2. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   This was discussed briefly ina thread a few weeks back ... I think Techgnome mentioned it and rboren commented. It was 1.5 specific - a good trawl through the templates section may flip it over. I didn't bookmark it at the time ..

3. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=20048
   ^^^ that's the one.

4. Michiel
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hi, will the WP1.5 feature work in a way that the category specific template also will be opened with viewing a post in one of those categories, either directly from the homepage or as permalink?

5. nearlythere
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   i'm working on something similiar, and i'm finding that if you don't have sub-categories, and only one category per entry- you're OK.

   so- i was using a modified version of the code listed here:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=20048#post-114255

   and i placed this in my header.php where page begins, to tell me what category it was.

   Is this a category?

   <?php
switch($cat) {
case "1":
print "this is under cat1";
break;
case "2":
print "this is under cat2";
break;
case "3":
print "this is under cat3";
break;
case "4":
print "this is under cat4";
break;
default:
print "default";
break;
}
?>

   and what I discovered is:

   - single entries will display the the category they are listed under.
   - and top-level categories will display the same number

   - but when you have sub-categories, they list themselves in the top-level category.

   for example:

   portfolio (returns it's ID as cat2)
   - books (returns parent ID cat2 as but it is category 3)
   - - Individual entry, (returns parent ID cat3)

   what i need is:

   portfolio (return cat2)
   - books (return it's own ID cat3)
   - - Individual entry, (returns parent ID cat3)

   so as long as you have a one-level hierarchy it's OK.

   but this isn't OK for me. :o(

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