create a template page for a post

Question

i am new in wordpress and i am sorry for my english. May be my title is wrong. sorry for that.

My question is like that.

I have too many custom post types. I need some pages for a specific custom post type.

For example: I have musics, books and movies. I want to create a template for them like that; http://example.com/book/a-book-name/author http://example.com/movie/a-movie-name/director

How can I do that? Thank you for helping and sorry for my english.

Answer 1

You can add a rewrite tag and rules that capture anything after the post name:

function wpd_add_rewrites(){

    add_rewrite_tag( '%my_page%', '(.+)' );

    $post_types = array(
        'movie',
        'book',
        'album'
    );

    foreach( $post_types as $post_type ){
        add_rewrite_rule(
            '^' . $post_type . '/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?',
            'index.php?post_type=' . $post_type . '&name=$matches[1]&my_page=$matches[2]',
            'top'
        );
    }

}
add_action( 'init', 'wpd_add_rewrites' );

Don't forget, you must flush rewrite rules after adding / changing them. You can do this quickly by just visiting the Settings > Permalinks page.

You can then check the value of my_page anywhere after the wp action:

echo get_query_var( 'my_page' );

Answer 2

Ok, look. When you create the custom post. you must add this lines. If you see, you add .. 'supports' => array('page-attributes'... this option show a select in your post for choose the parent post.

register_post_type(
    'my_post_type',
    array(
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'public' => true,
        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug'       => 'my_post_type',
            'with_front' => false,
        ),
        'supports' => array(
            'page-attributes' /* This will show the post parent field */,
            'title',
            'editor',
            'something-else',
        ),
        // Other arguments
    )
);