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I am creating a small blog about my trekking and camping experience. Since different experiences - like campsites, treks and tour operators - have different metadata, I have created a custom post types (e.g. campsite), associated with custom field types (e.g. price, water_supply).

Now I'm trying to use these fields in my child theme. I've copied twenty-twelve - the parent - single.php to single-campsite.php, and started digging in.

The problem is that the entire post content - title, content, and date - is created from this single line:

<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>

How do I edit the post internals, e.g. insert custom fields between the title and the contents, or remove the date below?

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That statement grabs a file called content-post-format.php in the theme directory, depending on the post format. Posts will grab content.php since there is no post format.

Copy the information out of content.php into single-campsite.php and go from there. Alternatively, you can create a copy of content.php called content-campsite.php and call:

<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'campsite' ); ?>
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  • +1 Great. The concept of get_template_part is a bit confusing.
    – Adam Matan
    Apr 1, 2013 at 14:47
  • Yeah, it's a little at first but it's nice to keep your theme organized by section. I use this for comments, post data, all kinds of things. Apr 2, 2013 at 15:16
  • What's the general idea behind this function?
    – Adam Matan
    Apr 2, 2013 at 15:27
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    A simple API to include theme files correctly. It basically concatenates the first string and the last string with a dash in the middle and looks for that file name with a PHP extension. If it doesn't find that, it falls back on just the first string for a file name. Basically, it tries for a specific file but has a fall back if not. Apr 3, 2013 at 16:08

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