I am working with categories (cities) and subcategories with the same menu (for example: cars, animals, houses).
Therefore right now my categories structure looks like this:
- London
-- cars
-- animals
-- houses
- Manchester
--cars
--animals
--houses
The slugs for each subcategory (as it seems they have to be unique), are named like this category_name + subcategory_name looking like london-cars, manchester-cars.
Now, I would like to use a different template for my main categories (cities) than for the subcategories (cars, animals, houses).
I've read this topic that suggest a way to do it, but there's a big problem with it: I would need to create as many conditions as subcategories I have within all categories.
This makes it unmaintainable.
The other option I found was to create use the theme category-slug.php, but this would also imply that I have to create as many subcategory themes as subcategories in all sections.
Is there any other way to do it?
I am working with categories (cities) and subcategories with the same menu (for example: cars, animals, houses).
Therefore right now my categories structure looks like this:
- London
-- cars
-- animals
-- houses
- Manchester
--cars
--animals
--houses
The slugs for each subcategory (as it seems they have to be unique), are named like this category_name + subcategory_name looking like london-cars, manchester-cars.
Now, I would like to use a different template for my main categories (cities) than for the subcategories (cars, animals, houses).
I've read this topic that suggest a way to do it, but there's a big problem with it: I would need to create as many conditions as subcategories I have within all categories.
This makes it unmaintainable.
The other option I found was to create use the theme category-slug.php, but this would also imply that I have to create as many subcategory themes as subcategories in all sections.
Is there any other way to do it?
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Reset to default 1You could use the template_redirect hook to check and see if your post is a category and then whether it is a sub-category ... and if so, force a different template.
For example (assuming you are using wordpress categories)
function my_maybe_override_category_template( $template ) {
# Make sure you are about to show a category term
if ( is_category() ) {
# Grab the term that content is to be displayed for
global $wp_query;
$term = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
if ( 0 < (int)$term->parent ) {
# This term has a parent, try to find your special child term template
$found = locate_template('template_child_categories.php');
if ( !empty( $found ) ) {
# Override the normal template as we found the one we created
$template = $found;
}
}
}
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'my_maybe_override_category_template');
Unless I got something slightly off, that should do what you are wanting provided that:
- You create a special template called template_child_categories.php, which will be used to show your child terms.
Ended up doing this, which seems much more simple:
if (is_category()) {
$this_category = get_category($cat);
if (get_category_children($this_category->cat_ID) != "") {
// This is the Template for Category level 1
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/location.php');
}
else{
// This is the Template for Category level 2
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/subcategory.php');
}
}
Problem with above structure is slugs of sub-categories.
USA > (slug: usa)
-News (slug: news)
-Attractions (slug: attractions)
Once above is done and you create same structure with more Categories, you will get problem is slugs, see example below
Canada > (slug: canada)
-News > (slug: news-canada)
-Attractions (slug: attractions-canada)
One possible solution is if you reverse the case
Make SubCategory as Parent Category and tag them by country name, see example below.
News > Posts have tag: USA, Canada, etc
Attractions > Posts have tag: USA, Canada, etc