Creating Multiple Single Posts for Different Categories [closed]

Question

My current work required me to assign a specific stylesheet/appearance for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog. By default, all blog post (single page) will use the single.php to display the post. There are a lot of ways of doing this, but I wanted it to be fast and simple.

This is my single.php code:

get_header();
if(have_posts()){
    while(have_posts()) {
        the_post();
        $id=get_the_ID();
        $cat=get_the_category();
        $postTitle=get_the_title();
        $post_type=get_post_type( $post );
        $subtitle='';
        $slider='none';
        $layout=get_opt('_blog_layout');
        $sidebar=get_opt('_blog_sidebar');      
        include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/page-header.php');         
        ?>

        <div id="content-container" class="content-gradient <?php echo $layoutclass; ?> ">
        <div id="<?php echo $content_id; ?>">
        <!--content-->
        <?php

        include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/post-template.php');

    }
} ?>

<div id="comments">
    <?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
</div>

<?php 
if($layout!='full'){
    print_sidebar($sidebar); 
}

?>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<?php get_footer();   ?>

I try put something like this in the single.php but i still cannot get what i want

<?php
if ( in_category('3') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
} 
?>

How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

Create Desired style for your different single page then on single.php you have to do this check, so desired single page will load for specific category type. And don't forget to give defult single as fall back.

$post = $wp_query->post;

if (in_category('1')) {

  include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single1.php');

} elseif (in_category('2')) {

  include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single2.php');

} else {

include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single_default.php');

}

Answer 2

Another way to approach this would be to echo the category slug as a class on the BODY tag, and create a set of styles dependent on that. This could get cumbersome if the special version of the page is very different from the default version, but if you're only making a few changes, it's low-overhead and gives you an easy hook for further customization.