WordPress: Page-Template functionality for Custom Post Types

[shbaxt]

I need to have the page-template functionality for a custom post type, ‘products.’

I have a list of product pages divided into 4 groups—each group has its own template. I would like to move these pages into a custom post type to make it easier on admins to add/remove/edit products without sifting through the other items under “Pages.”

I have the custom post type created and behaving like a page (hierarchical and supports => ‘page-attributes’), but I need the page-template functionality.

Is there any way I can implement page-template functionality or do I need to find a different solution?

I found this discussion, but it comes short of answering my question.

[mixxmac]

You can add a template file to be used for a custom post type…

… “In the same way that posts are shown on their own page with single.php, custom post types will use single-{posttype}.php if it’s available.”

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

[shbaxt]

Thanks for the link mixxmac.

To use this solution, I would need to make 4 separate custom post types (for the 4 categories of products). That might be the route I need to take, but I was hoping for a simpler solution first.

[mixxmac]

Maybe you could try using a custom field within your post e.g. product-type, and then some conditional logic to generate the markup based on this field.

There’s a great screencast on this type of thing here:
https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/65-advanced-uses-for-custom-fields-in-wordpress/

The video seems to cover the same type of thing you described.

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