Don’t use custom page templates for structural layout changes. Use custom post metadata instead, and then output conditional CSS rules (or even custom HTML markup, though that’s probably not necessary here) based on the value of the custom post metadata.
If that’s the case you are going about it the wrong way. You should use WP_Ajax_Response to send the comment, or just redirect the the same page. Duplicate content is not what WP is intended for.
You can give this a try. $template_name = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘_wp_page_template’, true );
My initial thought without being able to do further testing is that your custom galleri page is looking for the URL parameters in order to determine which post to pull images from. However, since you’re rewriting the URL, those URL parameters don’t technically exist (I could be wrong about this – I’m not at a … Read more
The short answer: there isn’t a way to control what shows up in that dropdown list, there are no filters available for it. Hopefully that will change in a future version. A possible solution would be to create your own meta box that lists templates from your own array of templates appropriate for the current … Read more
Based on your comment: 1) blog.php What is the file name of your blog custom page template? 2) home.php What is the file name of your front page custom page template? The answer is simple: The home.php file name is a reserved file name in the WordPress template hierarchy, and is used by the template … Read more
Custom post types have a different hierarchy than pages or posts. They’ll use single-{{post_type}}.php and fall back to single.php. Post type archives will use archive-{{post_type}}.php and fall back to archive.php. Your question isn’t super clear, but if you want your custom post type’s singular page to use the page-testimonials.php template, rename it to single-testimonials.php. I … Read more
<?php /* Template Name:product */ get_header(); // check if product_id is not set or is empty string if( !isset($_GET[‘product_id’]) || ” == $_GET[‘product_id’] ) { // if so, run your query and display data $data = $wpdb->get_results(“myquery Here”); foreach($data as $row) { echo ‘<div>’; echo ‘<p>Name:’ . $row->p_name . ‘</p>’; echo ‘<p>Price:’ . $row->p_price. ‘</p>’; … Read more
They do not inherit the parents template. WordPress has some neat ways to make special templates for certain categories or custom post types (taxonomies). You can apply this to all categories, certain categories by ID or slug and archive pages. The sad part is it does not work in a hierarchical way, you have to … Read more
Page templates are special case and since WP 3.4 can be put in subfolder natively. Other than that WP mostly expects flat file structure for templates. While template hierarchy is easily adjusted (see dynamic filter in get_query_template(), pretty much only thing needed)… From personal experience – overly extensive and nested directory structure for templates makes … Read more