Recently, I was implementing a private site in wordpress. So, I wanted to give privilege to some users only to be able to read posts under a certain category say ‘news’ . But according to wordpress template hierarchy only categories can have separate templates by using category-{slug}.php
But there is a way out for single-{category-slug}.php
Just add the following code to your functions.php
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add_filter('single_template', create_function( '$the_template', 'foreach( (array) get_the_category() as $cat ) { if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$cat->slug}.php") ) return TEMPLATEPATH . "/single-{$cat->slug}.php"; } return $the_template;' ) ); |
That’s it. After this, in my case I simply added a template file single-news.php to my theme folder.