Comments on: How to Create Page Templates in Wordpress

By: Kiralık Apart Kemer

Kiralık Apart Kemer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:25:42 +0000

Very helpfull. Thanks a lot.

By: Scott @sydneydesign

Scott @sydneydesign — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:29:34 +0000

Hi Great post thanks for sharing. finding it too easy now to create extra templates for my child theme

By: Scott Bussey

Scott Bussey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:27:54 +0000

Great article – just what I was looking for

By: Criminal Background

Criminal Background — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:00:24 +0000

Thanks for a nice and informative site. Somehow I was drawn to reading the post and I learned a lot. Have a nice day!

By: Rowland

Rowland — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:07:32 +0000

Hi. A bit off-topic, but this seemed to be the closest thing I could find to a post dealing with my question, which is: how do i give my new pages comment fields? at the moment they don’t come up with them and i’m a bit nervous about using the custom fields.

thanks – sorry to bother you

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By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:25:05 +0000

Yeah thanks because you’re trying to paste .php code into my comments! It sounds like you’re not naming the new page properly. Are you adding the template name code?

By: gusde

gusde — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:54:21 +0000

sorry the code disappear


Links:

Thanks!

By: Busby SEO Challenge

Busby SEO Challenge — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:27:14 +0000

Hi i have a blog site, Can i get good PR without listing my site in Web directories like Yahoo?
I am planning to put my links in paid PR>5 sites. Will that be sufficient to get good PR?
To get PR>4, How many PR>5 sites should be having my site’s link?
Thanks in Advance.

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:57:52 +0000

@stephen_Cronin @Erika – You both hit the nail right on the head. Since Erika’s comments on conditional tagging for the single.php pages I’ve been working on a revision article. Thanks all for your comments and really appreciate you dropping by

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:14:14 +0000

Hi Richard,

I actually picked this up through Sphinn. It’s a good article, although as a comment on Sphinn points out, it’s only useful for pages. Most bloggers will be using posts.

Personally, I think the use of Custom Fields is the best way to go. Edit your theme so it checks for the presence of a Custom Field and shows the appropriate social media buttons depending on the setting of that field. Then you just need to add a Custom Field to a post that you want the buttons to appear and hey presto.

That would be a great article if you write up how to do that!

Please note, the above article is great too, I know this sounds a little negative, but a post solution would be even better.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:41:38 +0000

Great tutorial! I definitely think that blogs that receive a lot of traffic should implement the social media buttons because it can be a great way to add some extra votes.

By: Internet Marketing Joy

Internet Marketing Joy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:22:05 +0000

These are really great pointers Rich..^^ thank you so much for being so generous.

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:25:49 +0000

Hi there – thanks for your Sphinn! I actuall covered conditional tagging here – your suggestion is great but for the application I’m referring to it certainly makes a lot of sense to have a few extra page templates.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:34:05 +0000

I sphunn your article, but I also thought I’d post here that if you’re creating multiple templates only to accomodate this one change, you might be more interested in conditional tagging, which basically says:

[insert details for this category]

[insert details for other categories that dont fit into the previous description]

That’s not verbatim, but that’s the general idea. I believe the WP codex explains this in pretty decent detail, though. You can always e-mail me if you have any questions.