How to get different homepage layout, based on the URL and customizer

Question

Not sure If my question is clear enough. I want to show different layout of the index.php, based on the URL and customizer settings. I see this format in some themes:

demo.website.com/theme/?home_layout=standard

For me it looks like it's a GET request, and based on this request different layout is loaded.

For example, I want to set layout to masonry in customizer and it should change the look of the homepage and the URL should be

demo.website.com/theme/?home_layout=masonry

If I switch to standard layout in customizer then I get this URL

demo.website.com/theme/?home_layout=standard

How to achieve this?

Answer 1

For those who wants to achieve the same, here is the answer: First we declare a variable with a simple condition to hold our GET request, if the value is not set than we define default value.

$layout = isset( $_GET['home_layout'] ) ? $_GET['home_layout'] : 'standard';

Then simply check the condition and load the template you want.

if ( $layout == 'grid' ) {
    get_template_part( 'template-parts/standard-layout' );
}