We discussed everything previously, so let's get into this trick:
Using A Different Post Template:
In this tutorial, we'll create a different post template for the cat-1 category. We'll use multiple single.php files to make it more easy and customizable.
Create a single.php file for your category. We're going to name it single-cat-1.php. You can also copy your single.php file to this template and make some changes that you want in the video template.
Upload single-cat-1.php to the root of your current theme. Same place where single.php file is located.
Okay, so now we'll tell WordPress to use single-cat-1.php template for the posts within video category. Add following to your theme's functions.php file:
add_action('template_include', 'load_single_template');
function load_single_template($template) {
$new_template = '';
// single post template
if( is_single() ) {
global $post;
// 'cat-1' is category slugs
if( has_term('cat-1', 'category', $post) ) {
// use template file single-template-cat-1.php
$new_template = locate_template(array('single-cat-1.php' ));
}
}
return ('' != $new_template) ? $new_template : $template;
}
In above code, replace cat-1 is the slug of your category, and single-cat-1.php is your custom post template file. Save the file. That's it.
