Loop through pages with specific template

Question

I would like to know how I can loop through pages with a specific template name. I have several pages where the admin can select a template name of SALE. I want to display all content with this template name via the loop.

Any ideas are much appreciated!

Answer 1

Wordpress saves page templates that is assigned to a specific page in the db in the wp_postmeta table.

These are saved as follows:

'meta_key' => '_wp_page_template',
'meta_value' => 'NAME_ OF_TEMPLATE'

With this in mind, you can loop through pages which shares a specific page template, using get_pages (You can also make use of WP_Query)

Example:

$pages = get_pages(array(
    'meta_key' => '_wp_page_template',
    'meta_value' => 'page-special.php'
));
foreach($pages as $page){
    echo $page->ID.'<br />';
    echo apply_filters( 'the_content', $page->post_content );
}

Answer 2

Use get_template_part, for example if your template is named sale.php you can use:

get_template_part( 'sale' );  

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part