Possible to create Custom Post Layout for certain posts?

[traction]

Hi there,

I'm looking for a new post (not page) layout I can choose for certain articles; a large 1140px image above the default 2 column design, similar to this:
http://gearhungry.com/2015/04/tesla-model-s-70d.html
http://uncrate.com/cars/

Prefer not to use plugin (unless there's a good one), and my web dev say this new layout isn't really possible for Posts - not sure I'm buying that.

Is this task possible? Can anyone please offer some insight?
Thanks!
Amee

http://www.tractionlife.com/

[Badlywired]

Of course it is possible.

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[traction]

Terrific, thank-you. Can you share how to do it?

[Badlywired]

You want me to educate your web dev?

It would depend on your detailed requirements, but if it is as simple as you state 'for certain articles' I might use post formats to enable a specific designs per post see https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats

An alternative would be to use a specific 'tag' or 'category' and when the post is in that 'tag' or 'category' is in play displaythe specific layout.

Or thirdly, I might use a custom metabox to select the post styling.

So there are at least 3 ways of doing this. It will take some coding, not just select an option.

What your web dev might be saying is
1) they don't know wordpress (at a coding level)
or
2) you are not paying them enough to do this level of customisation

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[traction]

Similar to Pages and Page Attributes option in sidebar, I'd like to choose the post layout I want for the particular post I'm doing.

If that's too hard, pulling the layout from the 'tag' or 'category' would work just as well.

I'm using a web dev service at the moment, so yeah, maybe I'm not paying them enough - didn't realize a new page layout is that tough.

Thanks.

[Badlywired]

Its not tough. (but its not a page layout you want but a post layout'

Based on your requirements, I'd use ' post formats'. So you get an option in the side bar and I would use if you selected 'image' then it would use the big image layout.

Then it is a matter of 'tweaking' the layout code to display the big image.

Probably about 1 hours work for an experienced web dev. (or less if they were already familiar with your site / had all the logins etc, it often take 20 minutes of 'conversation' to get the right access and 20 minutes to work out what the previous web dev has actually done)

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