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1. grishart
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all
   I want to set up a conditional statement into your single.php script that detects what the requested category is and displays a different template.

   Does anyone know how to do this.

   thanks

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   single posts can have multiple categories;

   you can check if the single post is in a certain category with the conditional tag in_category()

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Category_Page

3. grishart
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi thanks for this but when I put the following code into my single.php outside the loop the post don't appear when you click through the link to view them.
   

   <?php
   if ( in_category('create') ) {
   	include 'single-create-2.php';
   } elseif ( in_category('St Martins news') ) {
   	include 'single.php';
   } else {
   	// Continue with normal Loop
   	if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   	// ...
   }
   ?>

   http://stmartinoftours-org-uk.greenstrata.com/category/create-2/

   Have I set this up wrong or am I missing something?

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   in_category() might not work outside the loop.
   also the permalink looks a bit strange with the .../2011/01/400/

   i receive a '500 internal server' error when clicking on the post title.

   you could paste the whole code of single.php into a http://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here - so the code can be seen in its context.

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