Different Templates for Different Categories?

Resolved deewilcox
(@deewilcox)

11 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for a fantastic plugin. I have successfully used this feed for two different categories. I have a custom template created for one category (as well as a custom page template in my theme, to parse the data), and I’d like to use the default template for the second category. Is that somehow possible?

Here is the working feed: http://ravenwood.mobi/calendar

And here is the wonky one: http://ravenwood.mobi/news

Thanks for your help!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

11 years, 5 months ago

Hi,
Right now, the plugin doesn’t support using more than 1 template (even though you can customize that template). But this is a good suggestion and I’ll see if there is a way to make it so you can use more than one template.
Allen

Thread Starter deewilcox
(@deewilcox)

11 years, 5 months ago

I was just looking at your code for template_functions.php. What if we added a category field for the DB record? And checked by that?

Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

11 years, 5 months ago

yeah…that’s possible..it’s likely that it would need a shortcode parameter, however, so I’ll need to think about that..unless you want to code it 🙂

Thread Starter deewilcox
(@deewilcox)

11 years, 5 months ago

You obviously know the plugin much better than I do, but I just might give it a shot. If it works, I’ll let you know.

Plugin Author Allen
(@amweiss98)

11 years, 5 months ago

actually, the easiest way to do this is as follows:

go into the main wp-rss-multi-importer.php file and add a shortcode parameter to overrwide the $template variable…then put in the shortcode using the new parameter (it would have to be the precise php file name) and that should work.

If you want, email me at
http://www.allenweiss.com/contact

and I can send you a revised file that should do the trick without having to change the db

Thread Starter deewilcox
(@deewilcox)

11 years, 5 months ago

This line?
$template=$options['template'];
Thread Starter deewilcox
(@deewilcox)

11 years, 5 months ago
Went with this. Works beautifully!
```
if ($thisCat == 1){
	$template=$options['template'];
}
else {
	$template = 'default.php';
}
```

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