Template Names for categories

  • Raphael Figa

    (@raphaelfiga)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi All!

    We can create templates for pages using a declaration at the beginning of a theme file:

    
<? Php
/ **
  * Template Name: Full Width Page
  *
  * @package WordPress
  * Twenty_Fourteen @subpackage
  * @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
  * /

?>

    This snippet creates a select field on page attributes in admin editor.
    Is there a possibility to create similar to edit categories?
    If it is not possible or recommended, why?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    do you mean https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    If category templates is not what you are looking for, please describe what you are actually trying to accomplish. There is likely a way to do so, but it may be more involved than formatting a PHP comment in a certain way 😉

    Thread Starter Raphael Figa

    (@raphaelfiga)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    I want to have the possibility of the admin to change the template of the categories direct in the wp-admin equal we can do with the pages.
    Template Names

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Your theme probably uses comment_template() to load the theme’s comment template. The file used defaults to comments.php, but a different file can be passed to the function. So first you need a place for admins to pick a file. They could just enter the actual file name in a custom field, or you could build a nice interface in a custom meta box. The end result should be a filename is stored in post meta. It would simpler to hardcode the relationship between UI name and filename, but you could write a script similar to the one used by WP to find files with a particular comment and extract the name.

    Then on every template where comment_template() is called, change it to get the file from post meta. If no value is saved, load comments.php.

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