Multiple templates for single archive page

  • What is the simplest way to have two (or more) different views of the same page?

    For example, I have a category called ‘events’. By default, when someone goes to the archive page for an event, it will display with the appropriate template defined by the template hierarchy.

    However, I would also like to be able to display an event with a different template (specifically, a lite version of the page used by an announcements mailing list program, or could also be a lite version for viewing on a mobile device).

    What’s the easiest way to achieve this?

    Thanks,

    mark.

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  • https://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/

    Thread Starter Mark Rowatt Anderson

    (@markauk)

    Thanks Moshu. Unless I am misreading the info and comments for that plugin, that looks like a great way for assigning a template to a category, however if a post has multiple categories it will display the template based one of those categories, but not allow me to select which template to use.

    Or did I misunderstand how that plugin works?

    Same thing here. A given post in multiple categories will only display using a single template…

    Progress?

    I can’t get the branching single.php to a different single page template beyond the first category specified for a single post.

    But this seems to be able to detect the current category, and return the correct content based on the posts CURRENT category.

    <?php $catname = 0 ;
 $catname = get_query_var('cat');
           if ( $catname =='21') { ?>
Category 21
<?php } elseif ( $catname == '19' )  { ?>
Category 19
<?php } else  { ?>
Category Other
<?php } ?>

    Does anyone have any improvements/corrections I can make to my PHP? It works… but is there a more correct way to do the code?

    Thread Starter Mark Rowatt Anderson

    (@markauk)

    This is an ugly hack, but it worked for me. This allows me to select an alternate template (called email) if I add a parameter to the end of a post URL, eg https://www.yoursite.com/blog/post?email=1

    To use, create a file called email-theme.php and put it in the WP plugins folder. The file should contain:-

    <?php
/*
Plugin Name: Email Theme
*/

function em_get_template($template) {

        if (!empty($_GET["email"])) {

                return "email";

        } else {

                return "mytemplate"; //or whatever my primary template is

        }
}

function em_get_stylesheet($stylesheet) {

        if (!empty($_GET["email"])) {

                return "mytemplate";

        } else {

                return "mandigo"; //or whatever my primary template is

        }
}

add_filter('template', 'em_get_template');
add_filter('stylesheet', 'em_get_stylesheet');

?>

    I have no doubt this could be improved upon, for example to allow setting of an arbitary number of templates. I haven’t tested at all other than one specific WP installation, but it does the trick for me.

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