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I have a hierarchical custom post type (missions) setup. I want to create a few child pages for it (discuss, petition, educate), but I want each of those child pages to display a different template.

There does not appear to be a way to use a selected template, like on a normal page, so I thought maybe I could just have the child custom post type pages display content based on their slug.

So the permalinks would appear as:

/mission/mission-01/
 - /mission/mission-01/discuss/
 - /mission/mission-01/petition/
 - /mission/mission-01/educate/

/mission/mission-02/
 - /mission/mission-02/discuss/
 - /mission/mission-02/petition/
 - /mission/mission-02/educate/

Since they are children, and the Discuss pages could all use the same slug, maybe a function that gives all pages with slug /discuss/ the page-discuss-template.php from my theme directory.

Thanks for any help!

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  • With Custom Post Types you indeed cannot choose a template like you can for "normal" pages, but you can make a template called missions.php which will be called before page.php if it exists. I don't know however how this will work with children of the custom post type, but you could try it out to see what happens?
    – user2015
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 2:21
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    the only problem i see is that you can't have two pages with the same slug, but there is a solution take a look at wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8608/… and to that you just need to add a rewrite rule to make the links nice.
    – Bainternet
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 2:38
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    Also, check @Mike Schinkel's answer to this question - wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/858/… - which seems to be after a similar solution as you're looking for.
    – goldenapples
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 2:45
  • Thanks goldenapples. I believe Mike Schinkel's solution just might do the trick!
    – Chad Von Lind
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 18:08
  • I actually ended up going with what you provided, Bainternet. Thanks to both of you guys.
    – Chad Von Lind
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 20:41

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There are two approaches to my question, that are both useful. They were provided by @goldenapples and @Bainternet.

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