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1. Mark Rowatt Anderson
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   What is the simplest way to have two (or more) different views of the same page?

   For example, I have a category called 'events'. By default, when someone goes to the archive page for an event, it will display with the appropriate template defined by the template hierarchy.

   However, I would also like to be able to display an event with a different template (specifically, a lite version of the page used by an announcements mailing list program, or could also be a lite version for viewing on a mobile device).

   What's the easiest way to achieve this?

   Thanks,

   mark.

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   http://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/

3. Mark Rowatt Anderson
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Thanks Moshu. Unless I am misreading the info and comments for that plugin, that looks like a great way for assigning a template to a category, however if a post has multiple categories it will display the template based one of those categories, but not allow me to select which template to use.

   Or did I misunderstand how that plugin works?

4. buckyboog
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Same thing here. A given post in multiple categories will only display using a single template...

5. buckyboog
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Progress?

   I can't get the branching single.php to a different single page template beyond the first category specified for a single post.

   But this seems to be able to detect the current category, and return the correct content based on the posts CURRENT category.

   <?php $catname = 0 ;
    $catname = get_query_var('cat');
              if ( $catname =='21') { ?>
   Category 21
   <?php } elseif ( $catname == '19' )  { ?>
   Category 19
   <?php } else  { ?>
   Category Other
   <?php } ?>

6. buckyboog
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Does anyone have any improvements/corrections I can make to my PHP? It works... but is there a more correct way to do the code?

7. Mark Rowatt Anderson
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   This is an ugly hack, but it worked for me. This allows me to select an alternate template (called email) if I add a parameter to the end of a post URL, eg http://www.yoursite.com/blog/post?email=1

   To use, create a file called email-theme.php and put it in the WP plugins folder. The file should contain:-

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: Email Theme
   */
   
   function em_get_template($template) {
   
           if (!empty($_GET["email"])) {
   
                   return "email";
   
           } else {
   
                   return "mytemplate"; //or whatever my primary template is
   
           }
   }
   
   function em_get_stylesheet($stylesheet) {
   
           if (!empty($_GET["email"])) {
   
                   return "mytemplate";
   
           } else {
   
                   return "mandigo"; //or whatever my primary template is
   
           }
   }
   
   add_filter('template', 'em_get_template');
   add_filter('stylesheet', 'em_get_stylesheet');
   
   ?>

   I have no doubt this could be improved upon, for example to allow setting of an arbitary number of templates. I haven't tested at all other than one specific WP installation, but it does the trick for me.

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