How can I make different page templates for one category?

Question

I need this for menu "red car", "blue car", "green car".

Information is retrieving from a single category (cars). But the output on pages depending on the values ​​in the metaboxes (colors). On the page with blue cars shouldn't be a green cars.

Cars and colors for illustrative purposes only.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Make 1 template, and do a conditional on the meta info to either include a different stylesheet, or a entire different file altogether.

$colour = get_post_meta(the_ID(), 'color');
switch($color) {
     case 'red':
         include('category-car-red.php'); // or just different CSS
         break;

     case 'green':
         include('category-car-green.php'); // or just different CSS
         break;
     // etc
}

Answer 2

I did it with $_REQUEST help. This is not very pretty solution because of ugly url, but it works.

http://example.com/?key=value

Something like:

if ( $_REQUEST['key'] == 'value' ) {

    $additional_args = array(
        'meta_key'=>'key',
        'meta_value'=>'value'
    );

    $args = $args + $additional_args;

}

$query = new WP_Query ( $args );