problem with wordpress theme coding

I've run into a problem. I've created a theme that has two different single.php layouts. So i have single1.php and single2.php. The default single.php file looks like this:

<?php
  $post = $wp_query->post;
     if ( in_category('69') || in_category('70') ) {
        include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-artist.php');
     } else {
        include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-review.php');
     }
?>

Code (markup):

This seems to work in terms of displaying differnt post layouts depending on which category the post comes from (which is what I want). The problem I have is, that no matter what post link i click on, the post content is the same, even though the urls are different. Does that make sense? So http://www.blog.com/post1, http://www.blog.com/post2, http://www.blog.com/post3 all display the same content even though their urls are different and the post content should also be different.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I could fix this?

 

im guessing that the above code has been posted within the wordpress loop?

 

Thanks. I'm actually just realising I don't think I have a loop happening at all

Here's the index.php, anyone able to tell me whats missing and where?:

<?php get_header() ?>

   <div id="content">

      <div id="news">
	<h2 class="feature">Latest News</h2>
	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=Parent Category 1&showposts=1');
		while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
		$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

	<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
		<p class="byline">
			<span class="time"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span> 
		</p>
	<div class="entry">
		<?php the_excerpt();  ?>
		<p class="post-meta-data"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> | <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">Read full story &raquo;</a></p>
	</div><!-- entry -->
	<?php endwhile; ?>
      </div>
      <div id="rigs">
	<h2 class="feature">Feature</h2>
	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=Parent Category 1&showposts=1');
		while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
		$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

	<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
		<p class="byline">
			<span class="time"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span> 
		</p>
	<div class="entry">
		<?php the_excerpt();  ?>
		<p class="post-meta-data"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> | <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">Read full story &raquo;</a></p>
	</div><!-- entry -->
	<?php endwhile; ?>

      </div>
      <div id="adsense300x250">
ad
      </div>

      <div id="title-box"><h2 class="feature">5 posts by category</h2></div>

<!--- I WANT EVERYTHING WITHIN THE "box" div id TO BE REPEATED FOR EVERY CHILD CATEGORY WITHIN A SPECIFIC PARENT CATEGORY -->
	<div id="box">
	   <div id="box-content">
	   <div id="box-header">Category 1</div>		
	      <p><?php query_posts('category_name=Parent Category 1&showposts=5'); ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
		<?php endwhile;?></p> 
	   </div>
	</div>


	</div><!-- #content -->

<?php get_sidebar() ?>
<?php get_footer() ?>

Code (markup):

 

just so i fully understand, your trying to get one single page to display as X if its is from category Y and you want the single page to display Y if it is from category X?

e.g.
category = reviews == single posts should now show the review template
category = artists == single posts should now show the artist profile template

is that what your after?

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that is what I'm after.

 

I tried pluggin it within the 'content' div, but I still couldn't get it working

 

you should use category templates and then in each category template include a sidebar

replace 
<?php get_sidebar(); ?> 

with
<?php include ('your-sidebar.php'); ?>

PHP:

http://mycyc.com/blogging-tips-creating-custom-category-templates-in-wordpress/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

 

That doesn't need to be in the loop, just put it at the top of the page. Not sure why $post = $wp_query->post; is there(maybe for something else?). Try using the regular loop instead of myQuery and use query_posts() instead.