These custom templates are perfect for that. While you see them used also for archives pages, or less commonly contact pages, this ability is often overlooked. This is simply because most of us find it easier to change something than to build from scratch. Now, go make awesome pages! Image credit: Infrogmation. Hi David! Nice post. Will Custom Page Templates still be relevant? Will it be a pattern?
In the old days, the only way to create custom single post templates was to edit the code of your theme. A post template is the design that your content uses when you publish it. The post template is what controls where the post title displays, where the featured image is above or below the post title? By default, your post templates are controlled by your theme. Some themes like Neve enable you to customize this template using built-in settings:.
However, you can only edit one template at a time. For example, what if you want to use one template for posts in one category and a different template for posts in another category? This is where custom WordPress post templates come in. These are pre-made structures that you can personalize and apply to some or all of your content.
The most obvious benefit of using WordPress post templates is speed. Instead, you can simply choose the template to apply to that post and get to work on the content. This helps you spend more time working on other important tasks.
Pre-made templates can also help standardize your content structure. Consistency can be key to a clean, professional site design. While the process of building the initial WordPress post templates will take a bit of time, we highly recommend giving them a shot — you might thank yourself later! For a native way to create custom WordPress post templates, you can use the new template editing mode in the native WordPress block editor AKA Gutenberg.
This feature was launched in WordPress 5. Start by creating a new post using the block editor. Next, click on New.
In the pop-up window that follows, enter a name for your template and select Create :. You are now in the template editor, where you can start designing the layout of your posts. There are two types of layout elements that you can use:. Below, you can see that the Post Title block displays the actual title of the post from the editor.
You can find all of the theme blocks in the Theme section of the block inserter:. You can also use all of the regular blocks, including the layout blocks like columns.
However, keep in mind that if you add a content block, it will be the same for every post that uses this template. If you decide to edit your template later on, you can just open a post, locate the Template option in the Settings , and select Edit :.
You can use page templates to achieve these things. This section shows you how to build page templates that can be selected by your users through their admin screens.
When a person browses to your website, WordPress selects which template to use for rendering that page. As we learned earlier in the Template Hierarchy , WordPress looks for template files in the following order:. Alert: There is also a WordPress-defined template named paged. It is not used for the page post-type but rather for displaying multiple pages of archives.
If you plan on making a custom page template for your theme, you should decide a couple of things before proceeding:. Every page template that has a template name can be selected by a user when they create or edit a page. Therefore, a WordPress user can choose any page template with a template name, which might not be your intention. Conversely, many themes include the ability to choose how many columns a page will have. Each of these options is a page template that is available globally.
To give your WordPress users this global option, you will need to create page templates for each option and give each a template name. Dictating whether a template is for global use vs. Note: Sometimes it is appropriate to have a template globally available even if it appears to be a single use case.
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