different templates for different categories?

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  • 06/01/2015 at 1:21 pm #336334
    Jeremy Iggers
    Guest

    Hi Steve,
    Is it possible to use different templates for different categories? For example, I might want to use cMap for http://www.iggersdigest.com/places/ and Excerpt for http://www.iggersdigest.com/people/.

    Also, is there any way to display a few featured listings (or teasers) in a sidebar or other widget area, the same way I am able to display teasers for posts on my homepage (see http://www.iggersdigest.com), the way that Food and Restaurants teasers are displayed in the Home-Middle section.

    And can you tell me why the Biographical info isn’t showing up on my listings?
    Thanks,
    Jeremy

    06/01/2015 at 2:11 pm #336339
    Jeremy Iggers
    Guest

    P.S. The name of my site is being changed to http://www.globaltwincities.com. If you aren’t able to follow the links in my previous message, you can try http://www.globaltwincities.com/people, and http://www.globaltwincities.com/places instead.

    06/03/2015 at 10:55 am #336444
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Jeremy

    re: Is it possible to use different templates for different categories?

    Yes, you would use the template shortcode option to override the current activate template. I use this option extensively on this site for demoing the templates.

    re: Also, is there any way to display a few featured listings (or teasers) in a sidebar or other widget area, the same way I am able to display teasers for posts on my homepage

    You could probably use the recently add or recently modified widget from the Widget Pack. Hmmm, makes me think I should add a new widget that drops the ordering for recent added/modified but still retain all other options.

    Alternatively you could use the Tile template placing it after your category highlights.

    re: And can you tell me why the Biographical info isn’t showing up on my listings?

    Different template will show different data depending on design. For example Tile shows very little detail versus the cMap template which shows all. That said, the Default Card template does not show the bio field. You would have to switch to the Bio Entry Card template.

    Hope that answers your questions thoroughly.

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