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1. denl
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I have a custom post type in my child theme (of 2011). It's added by a plugin. The single items are displayed in single-product.php and that works very well. But my problem is I need to display 3 different types of product and I want 3 different single templates. I wondered if I could do something like check for a certain taxonomy like cats, dogs or mice and then send it to a different version of my single template, like single-product-dogs.php?

   I found this on another site, can't remember where now, I've been looking for ages...

   function my_template_redirect()
   {
   global $wp;
   if ($wp->query_vars["taxonomy"] == “example”)
   {
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/taxonomy-example.php”);
   die();
   }}
   add_action(“template_redirect”, ‘my_template_redirect’);

   It looks like what I want to do but I've no idea where I should put it. Would this go in single-product.php or does it go in the functions file? And if it would work how do I add the other two choices to the function?

   I'd be gratefull for any ideas!

2. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Custom_Taxonomies_display

   Just follow the proper naming conventions for each term/tax, and your templates will be used automagically

3. denl
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks for the idea. They don't work though, it all goes to single-product.php instead. Although I'm probably misunderstanding how it should be named!

   I've tried taxonomy-product-terms-dogs.php and that didn't work but taxonomy-post_format-post-format-link.php is a bit confusing.

   If My tax is called product-terms, my term is dogs and my custom post type is called productitems can you show me how I'd name that?

   Sorry to be a bit slow!

4. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I believe I misunderstood you. The naming conventions work great for getting an archive/list of your custom tax posts, but not single view

   Have a look through here:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-post-template-for-custom-taxonomies?replies=4

   Basically you make an overall single.php, that doesn't have the content display portion....

   Use a conditional if/else to detect the terms, and bring in differing code based on the term, with logic like

   if -> cats
   
   get_template_part cats loop/display
   
   elseif -> dogs
   
   get_template_part dogs loop/display
   
   else
   
   get_template_part default single loop/display (or just includea/leave your standard single.php stuff here
   
   endif

5. denl
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks! Yes that's what I want to do. :-)

   thanks very much

6. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Woo hoo! I'm glad that worked out for you!

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