Sunday, 13 January, 2013

Create separate templates for a category and its articles

Skrivr has a function that checks if the user has a custom template for a category or articles from a specific category and loads that if so. This way a user can create custom templates for a single category and its posts.

Here's an example

You are running the site beatpoets.com

You have your templates:

article.html
category.html
footer.html
header.html
index.html
static.html

But you decide to add a category for guest poems. You call the category "Guestspoets" and you want to have a bit different design for just that category. Easy! Just add "category_guestpoets.html" and "article_guestpoets.html" you can create separate designs for just that category and it's posts.

article_guestpoets.html
article.html
category_guestpoets.html
category.html
footer.html
header.html
index.html
static.html

Done deal!