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Is it possible to set up templates for custom post types?

For example you have a portfolio page with 4 different variations of layout and you want the user to be able to pick which layout they want for this post/page?

Wondered if any of you good folk knew of a way?

Thanks :)

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First ofcourse we have single-<posttype>.php but I don't think that's what you want ( yay if it is )

To implement this, you would need a metabox, with a dropdown that saves the value to a custom field, which you would then pull from in single-<posttype>.php and then use in an include statement. single-.php would thus only output headers etc if no option was specified, else it would use get_template_part() or include to load the correct template

How you populate that combobox/dropdown is up to you. You may have 5 preset templates and hardcode the filenames, or you may decide to put in code that checks each files header like Wordpress does with pages.

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  • I usually use <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'meta-box-name',true); ?> to get my meta box info, how would i write an if statement to say if meta bot drop down 1 do this if 2 do this else etc...?
    – Jezthomp
    Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 13:33
  • $value = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'meta-box-name',true); if($value == 1){ // do this... } else if($value == 2){ // etc..
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 14:35
  • Thanks Tom i'll give that a go, since your help i've found this also, do the same thing? wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-template
    – Jezthomp
    Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 14:52
  • Almost, that does it for normal posts, not custom posts, at which point you should really be using custom post formats instead.
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 15:05
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Why not just setup custom post templates so they can choose anyway?

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