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Matthew Blewitt
Matthew Blewitt

Reputation: 487

Add Specific Category Page Templates to WordPress with a Plugin

How do you add a category template via a Wordpress plugin. It needs to be for a specific category. So if the category is 'category-awesome' load 'category-awesome.php'. I've come across using the single template hook e.g:

add_filter('single_template', 'my_custom_template');

But haven't found anything for categories or a single category.

Many Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 453

Answers (1)

Matthew Blewitt
Matthew Blewitt

Reputation: 487

Think I solved it. Use the template include filter hook:

function category_awesome( $template ) {

  if (is_category( 'awesome' )) {
    $new_template = dirname(__FILE__) . '/custom-template-awesome.php';
      if ( '' != $new_template ) {
        return $new_template ;
      }
  }

  return $template;
}

add_filter( 'template_include', 'category_awesome' );

Upvotes: 1

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