Conditional tags with Single.php

  • danmerk

    (@danmerk)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Will WP allow me to pass categories through a conditional tag like “is_single()”? I am building a site that is organized by categories and for each nav item, I am using Category titles but want specific page templates to be used for single.php when an article is clicked on.

    OR

    Does WP allow multiple single.php files?

    single-news.php
    single-staff.php
    Both being single post pages from their respective category parents.

    Thanks.

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  • lola rennt

    (@laurenserge)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    On the template hierarchy you check what kind of templates WordPress will take.

    WordPress will not take single-cat.php. Instead you could use a conditional tag on your single.php to check what category the post is in and then change the stylesheet according to the category.
    Something like you can read here.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Does WP allow multiple single.php files?

    No – not unless you’re using custom post types.

    Thread Starter danmerk

    (@danmerk)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the help. This is how I remedied it. May be a slight hack, but works perfectly with what I am heading for.

    Single.php

    <?php
if (in_category('news')) {include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-news.php');
}
else if (in_category('staff')) {include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-staff.php');
}
else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/single.php');

}
?>

    Nothing else on that page. Then it checks for the two files I have on the server. Real clean.

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