page-template

Refer to the Template Hierarchy to help understand what’s going on here. When you create a custom page template, it is identified as such by the header within the file, not by filename. But you’ve also named the file following the page-{slug}.php format, and as you can see in the Template Hierarchy, WordPress looks for … Read more

How do you create a default template?

This is covered in the Codex, under How to create a page template. In your theme you create a file called my-bacon-template.php and in that file you add the following to the top of the file, before any other code <?php /* Template Name: My Bacon Page */ After that you can put any content … Read more

Further to my comment: I ran across a very similar issue with get_sidebar(), which I expected (incorrectly) to work the same as get_template_part(). A work-around is to do something like this: // instead of using get_header( ‘404’ ); , do this: get_template_part( ‘header’, ‘404’ ); // which should select ‘header-404.php’, or, if it doesn’t // … Read more

I am guessing that $dataAccess is instantiated as a global. If that is true, this code… $slug = $location = htmlspecialchars(urldecode(get_query_var(‘slug’))); $office = $dataAccess->getProfile($slug); … should also work in a wp_title callback. You’d just need global $dataAccess; to pull the variable into scope, though there are probably more elegant ways to do it.