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A while back I found that there was a reason to name a template like so

template-name.php

For the life of me, I can't remember what it was for. I thought it was so that WordPress would automatically pick up that template so that you would not have to set the page template when creating the post. I have been looking in the codex for an hour and can't find it. Do you know what the logic is behind this?

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There is no logic; you can name your templates krafutzel.php and they will work. – toscho♦ Aug 22 '12 at 5:08

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I always name them like so: page-name.php; This keeps my page templates nicely together + in some cases this can make your code easier, for example...

<?php // Get the file called loop-page.php
get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' ); ?>

A quick Google revealed also this http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/organizing-and-naming-your-themes-template-files-for-clarity-and-convenience/

Cheers

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Ok, I found it on codex - Page Display

Quote from Codex -

  • custom template file - The Page Template assigned to the Page. See get_page_templates().
  • page-{slug}.php - If the page slug is recent-news, WordPress will look to use page-recent-news.php
  • page-{id}.php - If the page ID is 6, WordPress will look to use page-6.php
  • page.php
  • index.php
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yes, there was some good information posted by Amit and Marcup. I thought you could name templates by the name of a custom post type and WordPress would pick up that template automatically. I think maybe the page-name.php might do that. – Jamie Aug 22 '12 at 22:42
Yeah. You can use page-customposttype.php, single-customposttype.php, etc. – Jake Aug 23 '12 at 6:18
Yes, page-ID.php then no need to manually assigne page template on save. – amit Aug 23 '12 at 6:24
for some reason when I try this, it doesn't work. Here is what I thought. If I have a custom post type called "gallery" I should be able to set up a file called page-gallery.php and wordpress would pick it up automatically so I would not need to set the template name on the page. But when I try that logic, it doesn't work. I could have sworn I did this before – Jamie Aug 31 '12 at 2:11

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