3rd personal template for single.php?

Question

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Good afternoon! I display an individual post template for the news category, for all other categories, single-default is displayed. But now there is a need to add another custom template for a new category? How to implement it in the code below. Tell me please.

<?php
  $post = $wp_query->post;

  if (in_category('news')) { //slug  категории
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-news.php');
  } 
else {
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-default.php');
  }

?>

Answer 1

Like this

<?php
  $post = $wp_query->post;

  if (in_category('news')) { //slug  категории
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-news.php');
  } 
elseif (in_category('individualnyj')) { //slug  категории
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-individualnyj.php');
  } 
else {
      include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-default.php');
  }

?>

Answer 2

The $post variable is already defined for you, it is not necessary to define it a second time, there is a function to connect templatesget_template_part()

if ( in_category( 'news' ) ) {
  get_template_part( 'templates/single', 'news' );
} elseif( in_category( 'articles' ) ) {
  get_template_part( 'templates/single', 'articles' );
} else {
  get_template_part( 'templates/single', 'default' );
}