I need to create a plugin that makes custom page templates available in wp-admin. I’m wondering if someone has tackled this already, as it seems like a pretty typical process? 4 s 4 Like Rarst answered you can really do that without editing core files or remove the page attributes metabox and create your on … Read more
I’ve been looking around for the past couple hours for a way to create a custom page template from within a plugin but haven’t had any luck yet. What I am specifically trying to do is add an option to the list of available page templates when editing a page, and not using some other … Read more
I have one default page template that I wish to use for two scenarios. I’d prefer to use only one page template for the sake of simplicity for my client. Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish: if parent_page OR if child-page without children { display full-width-layout } if child page with children or if grandchild … Read more
I want to move page template files like page-{slug}.php to a sub-directory within my theme, in a way that WordPress will recognize them automatically. If the page templates of the said form doesn’t exist within the sub-directory, then WordPress should fall back to the default template loading rules. How can I achieve that? Note-1: This … Read more
I want to add page templates to a theme directly from the plugin. The idea is that the template would show up in the dropdown under Page Attributes, and all the code would need to be in the plugin. Any tips on how to achieve that ? 6 s 6 You can use the theme_page_templates … Read more
I’m trying to check whether the page.php template is being used or not. I’ve tried is_page_template( ‘page.php’ ) but it doesn’t work. I also can’t use is_page() because I only want to do something when page.php is used, and not when some other custom Page template is used. Please let me know about this and … Read more
I want to create a new custom page template for the presentation of blog posts. I realise that when you assign a page to display posts via Settings > Reading, it then will assign home.php to display that page content – being posts on a page. Also the option to assign a page template in … Read more
Looking through the WordPress documentation, it says that is_page_template() compares against a “template name”, if one is provided. I have a template stored in page-homepage.php called Homepage: /* * Template Name: Homepage * Description: The template for displaying the homepage */ And I have some code I wish to run in my functions.php when I’m … Read more
In my WordPress site, I made a custom page template, which contained a custom query [using WP_Query()]. With that query, I can perfectly get the posts of a certain category. But I want to show the page contents along with the queried posts. Thing will be like: ————————— Page Heading page contents Queried Post Heading … Read more
From 4.3 we have a new template, singular.php. I tried to understand what is it, but I didn’t get it. 🙂 The page.php for pages. The single.php for every post types. If we have single-[post-type].php we can use a specific template for the custom post type.. so why we need singular.php? 3 It’s the nature … Read more
