Comments on: Page templates: The untapped potential of 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.

By: Using custom taxonomies to create a movie database

Using custom taxonomies to create a movie database — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:11:07 +0000

[...] In each template, I used the wp_tag_cloud() function (shown above) to show off a particular taxonomy. If you’re unfamiliar with creating page templates, read this tutorial on how to create your own. [...]

By: alvin

alvin — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:18:48 +0000

hey justin,

do you think it’s ideal to use templating to create page variations? i.e seperate the content being displayed, and how it’s being displayed on a WORK page (portfolio) vs. the BLOG page.

would be klutch for artists, illustrators and designers if they could easily create a page called work, select “portfolio template” in the drop down, and then be able to skin and customize their portfolio that way, as supposed to having an entire site dedicated to artwork.

thanks,
alvin

By: Creating a page template that lists all of your WordPress taxonomies

Creating a page template that lists all of your WordPress taxonomies — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:32:51 +0000

[...] If you need more information on this process, check out my tutorial on how to create page templates. [...]

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:14:55 +0000

Thanks for starting this. I don’t think I even need a tutorial, I just need to do it. My site theme is Cutline-based but majorly modded (and not very clean, I’m afraid, though I’m working on a cleaned-up version without the discarded CSS and whatnot).

As the blog evolves, I’ve found myself using a lot of conditional PHP to control things that I could solve with a couple templates. Like one for pages where I want 2 sidebars instead of 1. And another template for pages where I don’t want any. Those are the most-common changes I make to pages. All the code is there, too, I just need to straighten it out and put it together. But my brain got so fixated on the conditional PHP solution that it wasn’t thinking about simpler alternatives.

Thanks for the idea! (I’ll also be following the series to see what else people come up with.)

By: karen

karen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:34:50 +0000

could you create a template that had a grid of thumbnail photo on the left half of the page.
Each thumbnail would be clickable and, wehn clicked, a larger version would show up on the left hand of the page, and in a perfect world, a caption for that enlarged image?
I’m an illustrator and would love to create that kind of portfolio template. I’m fairly new to Wordpress, so – don’t laugh – but is what I am imagining even in the realm of possibility with a template?