Making category-ID.php template file apply to child categories

  • Resolved Lindy Norris

    (@lindynorris)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I have two unique Categories on a site “Guest Services” and “Local Guide” that each have several child categories. I want to style these categories and their respective children different form every other category on the site. I’ve created two category-ID.php files of category-4.php and category-7.php.

    How do I apply these unique templates to the children of the respective Categories?

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  • Thread Starter Lindy Norris

    (@lindynorris)

    Okay so I wasn’t able to do it using category-id.php but I was able to do it with category-slug.php and adding a function.

    I am curious if there is a better way to do this.

    function load_cat_parent_template()
{
    global $wp_query;

    if (!$wp_query->is_category)
        return true; // saves a bit of nesting

    // get current category object
    $cat = $wp_query->get_queried_object();

    // trace back the parent hierarchy and locate a template
    while ($cat && !is_wp_error($cat)) {
        $template = TEMPLATEPATH . "/category-{$cat->slug}.php";

        if (file_exists($template)) {
            load_template($template);
            exit;
        }

        $cat = $cat->parent ? get_category($cat->parent) : false;
    }
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'load_cat_parent_template');

    Thanks to this article: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3119961/make-all-wordpress-categories-use-their-parent-category-template

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