Comments on: Page templates: The untapped potential of WordPress

By: Jae Baeli

Jae Baeli — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:16:48 +0000

that template i created is also not showing up in the Page Attributes/Parent/ drop down box…

By: Jae Baeli

Jae Baeli — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:13:10 +0000

you say change the header and then save the example.php–but WHERE do you save it? when it’s modified, do you mean modify it within a text editor and then save it there, and then upload it ( example.php or any new template) ? if so, which directory do we upload/save it to? wp-content? OR the folder where the material for that page goes? (In my case, blog/video/example.php). I’m just a little confused about where we put these things we create.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:27:30 +0000

I don’t see where to choose a page template. I don’t see anything called Attributes (I’m using 3.1). The WordPress codex says, “Toward the bottom of the Write > Page administration panel (or on the sidebar, depending on which version of WordPress you are using) is a drop-down labeled “Page Template.” I can’t find that either.

Can you help?
Thanks

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By: Devin Walker

Devin Walker — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:05:18 +0000

Very helpful tutorial, hope you keep posting on your site. Gotta love WordPress!

By: palle

palle — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:06:59 +0000

Thanks alot!

That pictured helped me alot, due to a bug in wordpress admin I couldn’t see the page template until I selected default theme – and then back to my own. But it was the picture that made me realize that there should’ve been something there and not just that I didn’t find it. Thanks again…

Keep up the good work.
Best Wishes Palle

By: Valkrum

Valkrum — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:21:57 +0000

by the way, if the admin of this site cares to edit my original content, this is a great source for the proper conditional tags to use in your custom page template to call different headers based on certain criteria.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

By: Valkrum

Valkrum — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:52:02 +0000

I am making a page template that dynamically calls different header templates for SEO purposes.

Just to give a basic idea, I have the metas from google that only need to show up on the site root. So if the page being called is the site root, then the page will call rootheader.php and load the header with the google meta.

One more example. I only want certain pages to be tracked by analytics. So I have an analyticsheader.php

So that’s what I am doing with my headerselectpage.php custom page template.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:20 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the post, I would like to raise an issue I am encountering. I am using a customized theme. This theme doesn’t have the ‘Template’ dropdown within the ‘Attributes’ box. Is there a way for me to add that dropdown box?

Thanks

By: Slotted

Slotted — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:50:32 +0000

I build real estate and legal sites using WP as a cms. One page template we use for RE is a property listing template. Another is a featured listings template for thumbnails of property that link to the specific single property listing template – basically a gallery template. We also have a blank template with no sidebars for framing in 3rd party property search programs.

Couple the different page templates with widgetized content areas and you have a huge number of layout options.