Custom Post Types & Custom Post Templates

[vsellis]

I've been really looking forward to today's 2.9 release but realized that support for custom post types != support for custom post templates. I know there are plug ins to facilitate this but does anyone know if there is a "built in" support for post templates to be applied to a custom post type?

I can certainly code PHP functions, ... to manage this but again, thought this might be built in. Custom post types seem a little less useful with out it.

[greenshady]

I'm hoping we get something like this in 3.0 along with the other post type stuff coming. My idea would be to have post templates follow this hierarchy and format:

 {$post_type}-{$custom_template}.php
{$post_type}-{$post->post_name}.php
{$post_type}-{$post->ID}.php
{$post_type}.php 
  

[vsellis]

Thanks Justin. Kinda what I thought. What you just described is exactly what I was hoping for.

[jpelker]

Does anyone know of any plugins that fully take into account this new 2.9 post type feature?

I know of More Fields (which is pretty solid but slightly buggy) and Flutter (which I've never gotten to work), plus Pods, but I can't say whether they're really operating within the way 2.9 intends for this feature to work.

[Elpie]

Custom post types in 2.9 seems like a misnomer to me. This appears to be more of a foundation stone for a feature thats coming later. I'm not sure they are really very useful at this point. (Unless I am missing something here).

[Otto]

Custom post types are now supported in the query, basically. So you can do something like query_posts('post_type=custom'); and similar.

This is bigger than it seems, because with query support comes easy rewriting support. For example, to have /type/custom only show "custom" posts, I could have this in a plugin:

 function post_type_add_custom_urls() {
add_rewrite_tag('%post_type%','.*');
add_rewrite_rule('type/(.*)[/]?$', 'index.php?post_type=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'post_type_add_custom_urls'); 
  

If I wanted to then hook those to a custom template, like custom.php, I could do this:

 function post_type_add_template() {
 $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
 if (!empty($post_type)) {
  locate_template(array("{$post_type}.php","index.php"), true);
  exit;
 }
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'post_type_add_template'); 
  

[lag47]

How would you do how about /%taxonomy%/%postname%/ for permalinks

[andrea_r]

Anything further on this? I'm wondering if there's a way to use custom post types, and then be able to pick specific page templates (just used for the custom post types).

Any ideas? Possible? Too much work?

[hakre]

From what I can see (trunk), there's a lookup for the post-type:

 'single-' . $object->post_type . '.php' 
  

in function get_single_template()

a file match in either theme or sub-theme should make it then.

additionally, you could hook into single_template to override file names (full path).