Use different template regarding to category

[Nicolas Massart]

Hello,

Is it possible to have more than one “single-event.php” template. I would like to have a second one used only on a special category (“school” for example). And by the way use also a duplicated “event-meta-event-single.php” to be used only for this same category.

Thanks for your help.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Nicolas,

You can do one of two things:

1) Hook into template_include and use has_term( 'term-slug', 'event-category' ) to decide which template to load (the function should return the path to the desired template). Please note, you should just return the filtered value if is_singular( 'event' ) is not false.

2) In your single-event.php simply check , has_term( 'term-slug', 'event-category' ) and display the content accordingly. You could even just have single-event.php as a “shell” which just decides which category-specific template to load.

[Nicolas Massart]

Thanks, I used the second option. Here is the code I used if an another newbie in php like me wants to achieve the same result ;o)

<?php 
                // choose which meta template to use according to category

                if( has_term( 'ecole', 'event-category' ) ){
                    eo_get_template_part('event-meta','event-single-ecole'); 
                }else{
                    eo_get_template_part('event-meta','event-single');
} ?>

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