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1. Lindy Norris
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I have two unique Categories on a site "Guest Services" and "Local Guide" that each have several child categories. I want to style these categories and their respective children different form every other category on the site. I've created two category-ID.php files of category-4.php and category-7.php.

   How do I apply these unique templates to the children of the respective Categories?

2. Lindy Norris
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Okay so I wasn't able to do it using category-id.php but I was able to do it with category-slug.php and adding a function.

   I am curious if there is a better way to do this.

   function load_cat_parent_template()
   {
       global $wp_query;
   
       if (!$wp_query->is_category)
           return true; // saves a bit of nesting
   
       // get current category object
       $cat = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
   
       // trace back the parent hierarchy and locate a template
       while ($cat && !is_wp_error($cat)) {
           $template = TEMPLATEPATH . "/category-{$cat->slug}.php";
   
           if (file_exists($template)) {
               load_template($template);
               exit;
           }
   
           $cat = $cat->parent ? get_category($cat->parent) : false;
       }
   }
   add_action('template_redirect', 'load_cat_parent_template');

   Thanks to this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3119961/make-all-wordpress-categories-use-their-parent-category-template

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