Have a second single.php file for different single post look?

I created a Custom post template plugin to make this easier.

So it’s customizable by post ID and not just category. That’s really customization. I love it. Most brilliant.

Thanks!

OK. I think this is a good idea.

So, tell me steps by steps how Lorelle figured it out. Would you? I am confusing all the sayings. Thanks

Just Use ryan’s plugin referenced above.

Someone’s also working on a Post Templates Plugin that provides post templates in the same fashion that core WP provides page templates.

nden, did you figure it out?

Hello! I am very glad having found this helpful thread!

I had the same problem as Lorelle had and follow this here curiously. The way of putting this “template switch” in the single.php manually works very well. But unfortunately I can’t bring ryan’s plugin to work.

I get this error message 4 times and the custom templates don’t show up after:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/htdocs/neoflox.net/page/wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 410

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/www/htdocs/neoflox.net/page/wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 414

I have the right files in the template directory and I believe I configered the plugin properly:

if ( in_category(‘1’) && file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-1.php’) )
return TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-1.php’;
if ( in_category(‘2’) && file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-2.php’) )
return TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-2.php’;

PLEASE be so kind and help me out you wonderful people! ??

I got this to work without the plugin. The code ended up being like this inside of a file called single.php with NOTHING else in that file:

<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category('9') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
}
?>

I then created single1.php and a single2.php with different style sheets and headers and even sidebars, since I can put whatever I wanted in each one. This is brilliant and no stress at all. No plugin no nothing.

I’m sure you can make a series of these in the single.php that asks if X then single4.php or single6.php and so on.

I hope this helps.

Oh this is a great thread. I am helping a friend set up her blog so that one category is totally different, and we figured that out, but I hadn’t yet thought about how they would appear when viewed as single. Looks all too easy now. ??

Just to complicate the issue, I also put together a plugin for this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=27821#post-156289

Well, Lorelle, thanks, but that was the way it always worked for me ?? Now I asked how to make the plugin work ??

hi, i’m new in WP. I’ve installed WP and works fine. My blog has two authors, and when a single page is requested, I want the loop to action: if the author is admin, use single1.php and if the author is Tedy, use single2.php. So I have similar problem except I want to sort it by author. I tried to change the above code into:

<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( is_author('Soyuz') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
}
?>


It didn’t work. It always shows the single1.php

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

I’d love to use Ryan’s plugin but instead of customizing the template by category and post_id I’d like to use it for author_id. Is that possible? I’ve tried noodling around with it, but I’m afraid I just don’t know enough. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!