GYS Themed Categories
by Mike on Nov.16, 2008, under GYS Themed Categories
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Hi there folks! It’s been quite some time since I wrote the predecessor of this plugin called Wordpress Themed Categories Plugin and I admit that I have failed to maintain it. Lots of people are reporting that it doesn’t work so I decided to rewrite it.
Introducing GYS Themed Categories 2.0. It’s the same as the old one except that this one will work for Wordpress 2.6 and above. Sorry for leaving users Wordpress 2.5 and lower behind. It’s just too hard keeping track of all the versions so I decided to just make sure it works on the latest versions.
You can download it here. GYS Themed Categories
To use it, just upload it to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder and activate it.
How much does it cost? Well, this one’s free but I’d really appreciate if you can link back to this site. For bug reports, just post a comment and I’ll try my best to have it fixed.
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Disclaimer: GYS will only provide support for scripts, themes and plugins on this site that bear the GYS brand name.
December 20th, 2008 on 6:07 am
I installed your categories 2.0 plugin and it seemed to be working perfectly.
I just ran into one problem that I cannot solve and could use some advice.
When I go into a category where I have changed the theme, it works perfectly. However if I click on the ‘next page’ of articles on the bottom it reverts to my main theme for the article listings. If I click on an article itself I get back to the modified theme like it should.
How do I solve this?
example:
http://www.annointed.net/blog/category/christian-blogs/journals-of-the-heart/ works perfectly
http://www.annointed.net/blog/category/christian-blogs/journals-of-the-heart/page/2/ reverted back to the old theme.
December 20th, 2008 on 11:22 am
Thx for the great plugin! quick question.
page navigation..
when i click on page 2 it automatically reverts back to original theme even though it still set to the themed category.
any workarounds?
December 20th, 2008 on 12:00 pm
Hi Shawn and Jay,
Looks like you both have the same problem. I’ll look into the issue and see what I can do about it. I’ll keep you posted.
Mike
December 20th, 2008 on 12:16 pm
Shawn and Jay,
What version of Wordpress are you using?
Mike
December 20th, 2008 on 12:31 pm
Update: I tested the current version with Wordpress 2.7 and it seems to work just fine.
Can’t replicate your issue.
Mike
December 23rd, 2008 on 10:00 am
using wordpress 2.7
basically its issue with page navigation
aka wp-pagenavi on themed categories.
1. main page – maintheme
2. categories – different theme.
3. categories page 2 = reverts back to main theme.
December 23rd, 2008 on 1:31 pm
I am using 2.6.5
It works fine except if you have more than 1 page of articles in a category using a ‘themed category’ the previous pages revert back to old theme.
December 23rd, 2008 on 4:01 pm
Hi Shawn and Jay,
It’s fixed now. Please download it from the link provided in the post.
Mike
December 24th, 2008 on 8:17 am
Thank you, it worked perfectly.
I pray you have a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
December 31st, 2008 on 4:29 am
Wordpress 2.7 not working. Category edit, theme not listing.
January 8th, 2009 on 1:02 pm
Hi,
I have these ff. menus by adding pages:
-About
-Products
-FAQs
Can i use this plugin wherein I will assign THEME A to About page and use the THEME B to the rest of the menus?
I tested this plugib and it only works in Categories.
I’m using wordpress 2.7
Is it possible?
Thanks!
January 8th, 2009 on 9:53 pm
Hi kralksk,
I did a quick test and it seems to be working just fine. The themes are being listed.
Mike
January 8th, 2009 on 9:54 pm
Hi Ronie,
Sorry but the plugin only handles categories and not pages.
Mike
January 22nd, 2009 on 11:58 pm
Is it possible to just specify a php-file and not an entire theme?
Since I have 50+ categories with different look, it would be swell…
January 23rd, 2009 on 10:15 am
Sorry, but that can’t be done with this plugin.
February 15th, 2009 on 9:20 pm
I’ve noticed that posts in multiple categories fall back to the main theme. Does that mean that if you want to use multiple categories for a post, they all have to be associated with the same theme in order for theme switching to work?
[Can you CC me your answer, I might not find this page back.]
February 16th, 2009 on 12:52 am
hi, posts in multiple categories will be displayed using the theme of the first category.
February 17th, 2009 on 10:40 am
Thank you for this plugin.
I’m not using it yet but this is going to make me work on my theme all night long !
April 7th, 2009 on 3:34 pm
This app made what I wanted to do very easy! Thanks!
2 of my pages are being showed in a different theme then the rest of the pages. I’m sure they are pages and not posts. Anything I should look out for to fix this?
April 11th, 2009 on 4:55 am
good plugin…..
May 6th, 2009 on 4:42 am
Thanks for the awesome plugin!
June 11th, 2009 on 11:23 am
This plugin does NOT work with Wordpress 2.8
It will break your site upon upgrading.
June 12th, 2009 on 2:26 am
I’ve noticed that in Wordpress 2.8 that this plug-in seems to have stopped working correctly. I now get this error at the top of every category:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/directory/public_html/sitename/news/wp-includes/query.php on line 1401
The default theme image is showing instead.
June 13th, 2009 on 12:22 am
This plugin is not working with 2.8 all I get is a white page when I activate it.
June 13th, 2009 on 12:25 pm
It’s a big part of the website I’m working on, any help on getting it working again with wordpress 2.8 would be great!
June 16th, 2009 on 12:56 am
I have just updated to 2.8 and I am now getting the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/content/46/4466046/html/wp-content/plugins/gys-themed-categories.php on line 110
Any help please?
June 16th, 2009 on 6:59 pm
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/…../wp-content/plugins/gys-themed-categories.php on line 110 !!!
Any clues???
I have just updated to 2.8!
Thanks!
June 17th, 2009 on 10:01 pm
its a great plugin; but its not what im looking for.
What i want is a little diferent; its to apply a theme to a new-page, not to a new category.
When you create a page, it inherits the format of the main theme, I want to select the page format from another theme (not from the default theme). Is this possible?
thanks in advance
June 18th, 2009 on 1:01 am
D’oh! I just upgraded to 2.8 and it broke the whole shebang. I really like the plugin, and haven’t seen a similar one around. Now I have to roll back..
June 19th, 2009 on 6:14 pm
Hi, I really love your plugin, but since my upgrade to 2.8, I’m having some strange issue. single posts are behaving strangely. I’m sure it’s something I did, but I just wanted to ask if anyone else has this probleme ???
Thanks for your work, very usefull stuff
Matt
June 24th, 2009 on 5:49 pm
Hi,
I’m trying to use the plugin with wordpress 2.8 but receive the following error :
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/motif/domains/motif.co.il/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/gys/gys-themed-categories.php on line 110
Any suggestions ?
July 8th, 2009 on 3:56 am
when i activate it i get
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in C:\httpdocs\pucku\wp-includes\category.php on line 137
July 8th, 2009 on 11:41 pm
I would kill for this. I’m going to have to roll my worpress installation back to 2.7 though.
Did a fresh install of Worpress 2.8. Installed this plugin and made no other changes to the default install.
Now I get the following error…
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/me/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/gys-themed-categoriesphp/gys-themed-categories.php on line 110
Either way, thank you!
July 10th, 2009 on 8:21 am
Plugin is now fixed for Wordpress 2.8
Thanks for your patience!
July 12th, 2009 on 6:18 pm
how about themed pages? or am I asking the right question?
July 13th, 2009 on 9:38 am
Sorry but this plugin does not support themed pages.
July 17th, 2009 on 12:45 am
Cool ! with the fix for 2.8 and my fresh WP installation, this plugin rocks!
Only a question, anybody has a hint for use different widget configurations with the different themes/categories ? (even if it’s hardcoding the template code, I don’t mind, since the big problem were the category-theme assignation
)
August 25th, 2009 on 3:11 am
I have been using your plugin on my 2.7 site for a very long time now and it works perfectly.
This past week I have been working on setting up another site using your plugin with wp 2.8.4a but I am having some issues that I do not have on my other site.
example:
homepage http://jerrygaffney.anointed.net/
category news is switched theme as expected via link
http://jerrygaffney.anointed.net/category/news/
That part is working as expected. The problem is when I click on an article within the category the theme is reverting back to the ‘primary site theme’ instead of staying on your theme.
example:
http://jerrygaffney.anointed.net/2009/08/22/facebook-test-page/
I don’t have this issue on my 2.7 site, just this one. I have also tried creating other ‘test’ categories, but have the same issue. The category switches just fine, but the links within the category for the articles keep reverting back.
please advise as I really love this plugin.
thanks
September 27th, 2009 on 4:20 am
Any possible way to make it work also for themed pages?
I dont think that exist other plugin for it, will be great
Ty
November 16th, 2009 on 4:21 am
Hi Mike, this is a great plugin and it almost does what I am looking for, as you have gone to all the trouble to design this, and it works like a charm by the way on WP version 2.8.6
I have a question, instead of selecting an alternative theme, how easy would it be to select an alternative template? So if I am using a modified Studio Press theme called Church, I have managed to create alternative headers, sidebars, and banners for this theme. The one thing I cannot figure out (excuse me I am self taught at PHP) is how to assign a specific page template to a category. I have managed it for pages, but the category eludes me.
As you have written a complex php script that can allocate a particular theme to a category, I would think that you could create a specific page template to a category ….
Would be very interested in your thoughts and views.
Here are the two pages that I managed to create from templates The first is the about me page using a different header, the second is the contact me page that shows a different sidebar
About: http://seanconvy.com/?page_id=2
Contact: contact me: http://seanconvy.com/?page_id=11
best wishes and keep up the great work
Sean
November 23rd, 2009 on 11:47 am
gracias. este plugin me salvo muchas horas de hacer un nuevo css para cada opción
gracias!!!