Displaying different categories within a Twenty Ten Child Theme?

Create a category specific template in your child theme.

I did but when I clicked through to the post it reverted to the main theme’s style or rather the main theme’s page ie page.php
is there a way it can go from gallery news section (which looks different from the rest of the site) to a single gallery page that has a different look from the main site but keeps the same style as the gallery page news section?

If page.php was used, then this isn’t a category – it’s a static page.

Yes your right, I found out that it’s the single.php file being used to display the posts… but I can’t find a way to make an offshoot that will display differently, I take it that I can make a second loop based on the index loop, I then just need it to refer to another output other than the single.php file, sorry if this is really easy I read the above link but it didn’t refer to single.php.

Thanks for your reply.

I found an answer to my question here https://bit.ly/Ztd7 though…

$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category('14') ) {
include(STYLESHEETPATH . '/lions-gallery-single.php'); }
elseif ( in_category('9') ) { include(STYLESHEETPATH . '/latest-news-single.php'); }
elseif ( in_category('18') ) { include(STYLESHEETPATH . '/tour-updates-single.php'); }
else { include(STYLESHEETPATH . '/single.php'); }
?>

This only lets me edit elements on the page where as my css is geared to edit pages… is there a way for css to edit different pages by their categories?

I found that you can apply a stylesheet to different categories and I went for this:

<?php if ( is_category ('14')) { ?>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/style-01.css" />
<?php } ?>

Though the above only had an effect on the archive page after much searching and stress I found that in order for it to effect the posts you have to change ( is_category ('14')) to ( in_category ('14'))…