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When you create a website or blog you want your visitors to get a variety of information.  It’s always much nicer to have a few different styles to your pages and posts so you don’t bore people with the same look everywhere they go.  This has always been possible with WordPress pages, where all you do is make a copy of your page.php file, rename it, add a little code to the top, upload it to the theme folder, and then when you create pages you get to select the page template you want to use.  So by also copying your sidebar files and renaming those and also uploading them to the theme folder you can now call your different sidebars from your different templates.  In your new sidebars you can code in different ads or widgets giving that page a different look to it.  If you know what you are doing with the code you can also make page templates that display your page differently altogether like maybe full width and no sidebars at all.

Now you can do the same thing with your posts. Using the plugin called the “Single Post Template Plugin” , by Nathen Rice, you can do the exact same thing with your posts or articles.  With this you copy the single.php file and insert the template code at the top just like in a page template.  You can do the different sidebar thing or code in different ads to the top or bottom of your new templates.  Just like a Page,  when you edit or create a Post, you have a drop down to select the the post template you want to use.

This pluging does require a little extra work but it adds a nice touch to your blog or website and gives it additional functionality to set it apart from the rest.

Nathen Rice has some other nice plugins too and you can check them all out at http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/