I created a Custom Post Type, and it has some categories in it. I created forms with User Frontend Pro for CPT categories.

I’m looking for a solution for assigning the custom templates to that records to show them on the website. For example; Assume that I have a CPT named Project. The project post type has two categories; “Business” and “Ideas” Users can post their entries with forms to these categories and their posts listed under the account dashboard.

The issue is that; Business categories should be shown with the category-business.php custom template, and in a similar way, the Ideas category should be shown with category-ideas.php.

How can I add custom template to CPT categories?

P.S. I tried the template hierarchy solution that is in the WP documents, but it's not working. Because there is a custom view function for content. I looking for a code snippet that adds the template page attributes to custom posts automatically, if it is possible.

CodePudding user response：

Assuming that you are just using the default WordPress category you can the pre_get_posts Hook to include the project as part of the category page if they are not showing by default

 function include_project_to_cat_pages( $query ) {
        if ( $query->is_category() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
            $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'project' ) );
        }
    }
    add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'include_project_to_cat_pages' );

CodePudding user response：

I solved that issue with a filter.

add_filter( 'single_template', function( $template ) {
global $post;
$cat = get_the_category()[0];
if ( $post->post_type === 'project' && $cat->slug === 'business') {
    $locate_template = locate_template( "custom-business-template.php" );
    if ( ! empty( $locate_template ) ) {
        $template = $locate_template;
    }
}
return $template;
} );

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