Comments on: Displaying single post pages differently in specific categories

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:58:22 +0000

Tommy, that’s exactly what this tutorial teaches you to do: style single post pages differently according to which category they are in. Yes, you can also style complete categories/tags etc. a certain way, but this allows you to style single pages in those categories too.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:11:19 +0000

The method can be done with categories, tags, and pages. However I don’t think it can be done with single yet.
Here is a link to the Wordpress Codex which further details hierarchy. Notice with single there is no slug or post # available:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

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Deluxe : The creative practice of Sean Gallagher — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:06:29 +0000

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By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:50:47 +0000

@Domonic That’s just the name of the header file we were using in this example since we wanted a certain category to display a Hebrew header. It could have been named header-gibberish or anything else. So just replace the name of the header file with whatever you think you’ll name your header file.

By: Domonic

Domonic — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:36:48 +0000

I thought i got it right up until you mentioned ‘header-hebrew’ thats gotten me confused…Obviously you mean somoething else, can you explain please?
Thanks

By: Nick Soper

Nick Soper — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:20:13 +0000

A super simple way to do this is simply create a new single.php file called single-9.php or single-2.php, the number being the category number of the custom page you want.
(Note this works with category.php too eg. category-8.php)
As this is built into wordpress, performance should be a bit quicker than an if statement in the template.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:55:35 +0000

It’s a good read, but i am guessing there is a more simple method out there and your article got me thinking…
What it you write a php code that says: if the category is ‘X’ then get stylesheet “X.CSS”?
I think that’s a far more simple method but the thing is i know too little about PHP but i think it is possible.
I need to change my title colors and that’s i was reading this. If nothing esle crops up then i’ll need to use your solution.

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Premium Wordpress Themes — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:59:22 +0000

If it weren’t for the comment from Chris Burns I would’ve given up on this – but it works perfectly, thank you very much indeed!

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:37:23 +0000

This article saved my butt so I just thought I’d let everyone know that if you’re trying to use more than 2 single.php files the above code is slightly off and will not work as written. To fix it you simply have to insert a “}” – that’ a closing curly bracket before each instance of “elseif”
Thanks!

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:04:37 +0000

@Noryt: Thank yous like this one are what helps me keep going! (Although as you can see my posting frequency has gone down dramatically It’s hard to keep it up and get work done AND have a life. Oh well.)