Tor N. Johnson

<p>This plugin enables themes to specify a different single.php template based on post category. As posts can have multiple categories assigned, it uses the following to select which possible custom template to use:</p>
<p>1) Categories directly assigned<br />
    — Check for extant single-CATEGORYID.php files and prioritize based on category order<br />
2) Parents of categories<br />
    — Parents are checked based on category order of the directly assigned categories.</p>
<p>Note, the above assumes that there’s a category order plugin installed. If the categories are NOT in a specific order AND there are multiple categories assigned per post then the template selection will be left up to the server.  Naturally, if there is only category assigned per post (or only one possible template per post), then there will be no issue.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>


Custom-Single

Enables themes to support custom single.php templates per category in the form single-CATEGORYID.php.

Radoslav Georgiev

<p>Ultimate Post Types provides an easy interface for custom Post Types and Taxonomies management through the admin. It works fully with the WordPress post type/taxonomy API and covers the functionality from creating a post type, through adding taxonomies and custom fields, to the template which the post type uses.</p>
<p>It is a logical extension of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-fields/" title="Easy and powerful custom fields management: Post Meta, Options Pages, Repeaters and many field types!" rel="ugc">Ultimate Fields</a> plugin and will not work if the latter is not installed.</p>
<h4>Post Types & Taxonomies</h4>
<p>You can create unlimited custom post types and custom taxonomies and set up every one of their details, as it would be possible through code.</p>
<h4>Custom Fields</h4>
<p>When creating a post type or taxonomy, you can directly assign all of Ultimate Fields’ custom fields!</p>
<h4>Templates</h4>
<p>With Ultimate Post Types you can select which template from the active theme should the post type use for it’s singular pages.</p>
<p>Additionally, you can define content that will appear before and after the standard content of the post type. That content may include custom fields, associated with the post type. This way you can create a custom template for your custom post type and display custom fields accordingly, without needing to add them to each separate post.</p>
<h4>Export</h4>
<p>You can export post types and taxonomies as stand-alone PHP code! When you add the code to your theme or plugin, the code<br />
is self-sustaining and does not need Ultimate Post Types to be installed.</p>
<p>You would only need Ultimate Fields or Ultimate Fields Premium in order to enable custom fields.</p>


Ultimate Post Types

Manage your Custom Post Types (CPT) and Custom Taxonomies, their templates and fields, without touching a line of code!

Custom-Single vs Ultimate Post Types