WordPress Single Page Template For Categories
September 25, 2015
wordpressIf you are familiar with building WordPress themes you've likely caught onto the naming convention used for page templates. These conventions are things like 'page-{slug}.php', 'single-{slug}.php', and 'category-{slug}.php'. The conventions are very handy and I wanted something similar for posts in a category. This method is much cleaner than having conditional logic all over your 'single.php' file to do have different design elements or functionality for posts in different categories. A simple one-liner to drop into your theme's functions file does the trick... Now, you can create 'single-news.php' for a post in the News category and 'single-blog.php' for a post in the Blog category and have completely different designs and layouts.
Active Projects
Here are some of the projects I am currently working on. Some are side projects, some are client projects, and some are just for fun. I like to build things and I like to share what I learn along the way. If you have any questions about any of these projects, feel free to reach out.
🏗️ JSONL Tools
I am working on a set of tools to help me work with JSONL. JSONL is a simple format for working with JSON data. I am working on a set of tools to help me work with JSONL data. I will use these tools to help me work with my own data as well as help me build my own APIs. Read more about this project in my blog post about building JSONL Tools.
🤖 Make Storytime
Personalized children's stories generated by AI. This is an app I am building with my kids.
📠 Fax Online
Yea, I know. But there is a long tail for everything and believe it or not there was an underserved market for people that need to send a fax online. Some people (like me!) just need to send a one time fax.
Read more about this micro Saas project in a blog post about building an online fax service.
🥑 Free URL Indexer
Free URL Indexer is a free tool to help you index your backlinks and get them into Google faster. It's a simple tool that I built to help me with my own SEO efforts and I decided to share it with the world. It's a free tool and I don't even ask for your email address. Just paste in your URL and click the button.
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