Custom Templates For Different Post Categories?

I am currently designing my latest blog theme and am wordering if it is possible to have a different page template for blog categories.

For example, I have two categories. News, and Information.

For the posts in the news category, I don't want comments enabled and I don't want an author box. But with the posts in the information category, I do want commends enabled and a author bio box.

Is there a way to do this with wordpress easily?

 

Please give this a read:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

Basically you use the nicename of the category as part of the file name for the template. For news, wordpress is going to look for category-news.php as a template.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

edit: Excuse me. Actually it checks for the ID of the category as part of the file name currently.

 

That is exactly what I was looking for! thankyou so much

 

for the category templates, yes that one is true(category-ID.php)

but for the posts in a specific category, you can use this plugin. this plugin lets you to choose different themes for your posts.