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Create custom page templates with plugins?

Is it possible to make custom page templates available from a plugin?
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Is there a WordPress plugin that registers a plugin file as a custom page template?

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?
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How to quickly switch custom post type singular template?

I have a custom post type called movies and I need to quickly switch the template that displays the movies cpt on the front end via a link. How can this be done? Files I have: single-movies.php ...
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Custom meta box shown when template is chosen [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Toggle admin metabox based upon chosen page template Is this possible to change editor screen immediately after someone picks some template from the drop down? I need a ...
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Dynamically link to the latest post or simulate request of specific post in page template

I want to have a link in the wordpress menu pointing to the latest post of a specific category. Because I am not able put a dynamic URL in the wordpress menu, my approach was to put a page with a ...
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How to *remove* a parent theme page template from a child theme?

I'm using the TwentyTen theme to create a child theme, but I can't seem to get rid of the 'One column, no sidebar' page template that is in the TwentyTen parent theme. I thought just copying it over ...
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Multiple areas of dynamic content in a page

I am new in Wordpress and what I really can't find how to do is the following: I have a new Page created from the CMS. This pages have different modules with text. Take for example this template ...
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Listing Parent, Child and GrandChild Categories and then the PostTitles on Page Template !

What I want to do is a loop like this is something like this I'm really sorry but its hard to format here! I going to put this short url http://pastebin.com/dEdKzgJz so you can see it better... Can ...
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Is it possible to stop selected plugins from loading on certain template pages?

I have a template page that has form on that is only used once in my site. The form uses form validation using jquery validate plugin (such a great plugin). Once the cart66 Plugin is loaded, the form ...
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Custom post type archive and single.php files not working

Hi I've created a custom post type called shows. here is the code for it. <?php add_action('init', 'show_register'); function show_register() { //arguments to create the post type. ...
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Remove navigation from header in custom page template

I'm building a landing page and want to remove the navigation menu from the page. The navigation menu is in header.php which is of course in the page template. Is there a WordPress function I can use ...
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Recents posts pulling from different post type

This blog page is pulling from a Page Template called full-width-blog.php. The left of the content is where the supposed general posts should appear. On the right is the sidebar. How could you make ...
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How to show a post single post in page template

Currently I've divided posts into 5 different categories, based on the categories I've created 5 page templates. all of the pages are listed into the home page navigation menu. in my home page I'm ...
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which parameter take Yet another post Plugin in Wordpress [closed]

hii i am using yet another post plugin on my 404 custom page but want to know which parameter or variable this take to show related post i want that which paramater pass in my 404 page url i can use ...
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How can I add an option to the Page Template list from a Plugin?

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 ...
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Creating a Custom Post Type for Inserting Preset Content into Post & Pages?

In response to Mike Schinkel's comment (see below) on my post about how to pre-populate content (essentially using a content template)... @Scott B I mean why did you support a file on disk ...
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Setting a custom sub-path for blog without using pages?

Warning: fairly pedantic request ahead. I have a design that makes use of posts (I.e., the blog) and a custom post type called "howto". The site front page ("/") has a template that displays the ...
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Authors Page : A page of authors

I'm looking for a way to create a parent authors page and then use the author.php for the individual author pages. I've been out of the loop (no pun) for a couple months and am wondering the best way ...
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How can I dynamically load another page template to provide an alternate layout of the posts?

I have a page that displays posts (4 on each row), with a thumbnail image & title for each. Is it possible to click a text/icon link and dynamically switch the page template? I'm looking to ...
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Control Custom Post Type template from a plugin

I can control the custom template to be used on custom post type pages but the template file would still need to have the markup of the theme. I was wondering if I could make it theme independent? ...
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Create built-in pages without creating actual pages

For example: site.com/contact (or site.com/?page=contact if not using permalinks) when someone goes to that page I want to load a theme template, like page-contact.php But I don't want to create a ...
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How can I create an alternative home page?

I'm working on a site which has a fully customized front page. Now I'm asked to add a more classic looking blog type page which will be reacheable at http://domain/blog. I tried creating a custom ...
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How to get IDs for objects in menu branch?

Is it possible to print content of all menu items, when displaying menu (or branch of menu as in question about displaying menu branches) ? Once I click on About Us I wish for new page to display ...
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How to Change 404 page title

i have try many methods after searching on internet but unable to ramove Nothing Found from my 404 page title how to do it please help me even i have us this in my 404 page header if( is_404() ) ...
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How do I modify this page template to show subpage excerpts (not post excerpts)?

I have made a page template which shows linked subpages using this bit of code: <?php $mypages = get_pages( array( 'child_of' => $post->ID, 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'sort_or ...
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How to remove a parent theme template from Quick Edit?

I was looking for a way to hide the parent theme's templates and found this answer which works perfectly to remove the parent templates from the pages edit screen - How to *remove* a parent theme page ...
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How to retrieve $_GET variables from rewritten URLs?

I need to receive some special $_GET parameters for a custom page I'm making, i know how to receive this through a simple $_GET like mysite.net/products/?id=1 , but I wanted to use the URL style of my ...
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I put my blog on a subpage, how do I get page title?

I've got my blog setup on a subpage (not the front page) and I'm using the template file home.php, how can I get the contents from the page editor onto this subpage? If I change the title of the page ...
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Template plugin for blog posts?

can someone recommend a plugin to do the following? My wordpress CMS has two types of users: administrator and editor, both of whom are not technologically savvy, so they need things to be super ...
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Pagination on a custom page template

I have set up a custom post type called 'Events'. For reasons that I'm not going to get into, I chose not use archive-events.php as the archive template for my Events. Instead, I decided to create a ...
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Posts archive index pagination in a static page custom query

In WordPress, I have a page for News that is using a specific page template I created. This page is populated by news posts assigned to the news category. I need to show only two of the latest news ...
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Created custom post type but selected template not staying selected

I have registered a new post type called Resources. I specify 'page-attributes' as a supported feature. When I go to create a new Resource post I see under Template that I can pick from a number of ...
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Get template part with Except [duplicate]

I am using <?php wp_reset_query(); query_posts('posts_per_page=20&post_type=post&post_status=publish'); get_template_part('index'); ?> in single post bottom. Its ...
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Conditional get template part

My index page look like this... <div id="ad-id">google ad code goes here </div><br /> <div id="post-id">My posts are goes here</div> I use ...
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Display all posts from specific categories on a page

I want to display all posts from specific categories on a single page. Therefore I edited the page.php file in my theme folder. I added an 'if-clause' to check which page currently being displayed and ...
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How do I create a custom post type for a training CMS in WordPress?

I need to create a custom post type based on the existing 'Page' type, for a WordPress based training CMS. I have no problem simply creating a new post type, but I would like to offer some kind of ...
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Using get_terms() to list terms from one custom taxonomy AND from one specific built-in category

I'm trying to get the terms of a taxonomy (kind) and the number of content they have but only for a specific category (get_parent_page_slug() = city name = category slug). This is what I have so far: ...
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Featured Images on Front Page

I currently have a static front page and a /blog. My goal is to have the front page be a grid of hand selected images (similar to a portfolio). I would like to be able to easily switch the images are ...
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Why is POST'ing to my WP page template producing a 404?

Hey guys..... I have a page template I have made up & I also was POST'ing to it to process the form.... originally it was working fine, but I moved around some code & now it's not working for ...
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Pagination & get_pages?

I have a page that list the child pages of this specifiec page but i would like to add pagination for it , how can i do this ? here is the code that get's the pages <ul id="products" ...
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What template is used for a custom taxonomy page?

When I create a custom taxonomy, what template file is being used to display the page? How might I create a custom listing page for my custom taxonomy. eg. I have a custom taxonomy skills. In it are ...