Post formats and template hierarchy

Question

I want to use post formats but the theme (WP-Bootstrap by 320Press) on which my current template is based doesn't make use of the content.php template, only single.php.

Is it possible to edit the template hierarchy so that you can append formats to the single template (single-image.php, for example)? Alternatively, if this is best avoided, can anyone suggest another workaround?

Answer 1

It is easy to make this work if your theme don't support post formats

• Create a child theme

• add_theme_support for post formats

• Remove the loop from your template files and add replace it with get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );. Your template should look like this

  if ( have_posts() ) { // <- Not necessary in single.php
  
      while ( have_posts() ) {
          the_post();
  
          get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
  
      }
  
  }
  

• Everything else should go into a new file which should be called content.php

• Create a new file called content-image.php and add the loop in there and modify as needed

• When a post is assigned the image post format, content-image.php will be used inside single.php to display the image posts

Look at one of the bundled themes how to exactly make use of post formats