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Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Jess — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:23:19 -0000

Thanks so much for the awesome tutorial!

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Jonathan Gaby — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:11:57 -0000

this is cool. I've been looking for a way to code custom page templates for three or four custom post types. It'd be interesting to see your take on performing that task.

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LIC Jeevan Vaibhav — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:53:43 -0000

I love thesis theme Lic. That was some good tips and info.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

berchman — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:49:07 -0000

@Paul. Could you send me your function(s)? If I see them I can see what's going on. Thanks,
Bert

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Paul — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:43:34 -0000

The implementation of Step 4 (place whatever content you would like within the proper divs) of the "Wash, Rinse, Repeat" loses me, because when I use my own custom function for a page template, I still need a way to reference the database-housed content of the post, as opposed to replacing all page content. My goal (and that of this article) is to write custom page templates, not custom pages. When I use thesis_content_area(); to try and reference the CMS / database side of things, the content repeats many times, see screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/vLm...

Love the tutorial, as it really cleared up some major Thesis questions, but some help on this would be much appreciated!

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mediamarkreno — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:50:18 -0000

Tons of insight and specific detail. Exactly my needs. Much gratitude and kudos. A new disciple! And thanks.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Chloecohen01 — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:57:03 -0000

Hi - this was great and easy to implement. Is there any way to create a custom template, so when you choose from the dropdown it would say "default/custom/archive/shop/directory/portfolio"??

The reason I ask is that I have 4 main templates I need to build out for my website, with that in mind each template will be used multiple times across the board- and that would be way too much code to place within custom css and function.

Have an idea of what I'm asking? I'd even (if possible) like to take it a step further by configuring the actual page fields, so when I select "portfolio template" it will automatically include: "title/desc/gallery/image links/media files" or an "location template" will include shortcode/textfields for Google map API etc etc.

While I'm a front end developer- I do welcome perhaps working with you if that means getting this site up and running sooner. Thank You!

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

berchman — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:04:20 -0000

@Dave
Not sure what you are asking for related to using short codes, plugins and customized pages. Could you give me a bit more detail of what you are trying to do?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Dave — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:34:14 -0000

If you want to integrate shortcodes form a plugin, how would that work with this customized page methodology?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Dave — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:53:11 -0000

Thanks for this tutorial!!! Very helpful in making a site look great!~

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Tracy Scherrer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:58:01 -0000

Sweet! Thanks for making what was seemingly (after perusing the forums) difficult quite straightforward. Much appreciated!

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Justen Robertson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:47:55 -0000

Thanks, just what I needed to know.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

berchman — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:30:47 -0000

Paul,
Glad that you figured it out.
Thanks,
Bert

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Paul Chamberlain — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:45:27 -0000

Ugh - I just figured my problem out - I needed a posts_per_page=-1 in there. That one always gets me!

Thanks anyway!

-Paul

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Paul Chamberlain — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:35:51 -0000

Hey - great tutorial - really helping me get through this project I inherited. However, I can't get my loop to work in my custom_functions.

Here's my code:

/* CUSTOM VIDEO TEMPLATE */function new_videopage() {if (is_page('videos') || is_page('42')) { ?><div id="column_wrap"> <div id="content"> <div id="topcap"> </div> <div class="post_box"> <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embe..." frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <div class="cycle"> <div class="video"> <img src="<?php echo get('thumbnail'); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="138" height="77"/>

</div> </div> </div> <div id="bottomcap"> </div> </div></div><div id="sidebars"></div>

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Berchman — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:07:38 -0000

Hi Anne,
Typically when I build any fully custom solution I will do a video tutorial that I provide with the project. That way you can watch me publish/edit/delete using the tools within WordPress and your custom template.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,Bert

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

anne pouch — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:03:34 -0000

Great tutorial but when you use custom templates it no longer is possible for most users you maybe building a site for to update the site themselves without teaching them HTML/CSS , ftp, custom_fucntions.php, etc. correct? How do you handle this with content you want clients to be able to update easily?

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Gouri — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:03:49 -0000

Thanks for such a detailed tutorial..

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Defalcator — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:34:08 -0000

this is simply awesome,love your tutorials about customizing of the thesis framework

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Funny signs — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:00:18 -0000

It's my bad I haven't come on this site before. Only when I'm having problems with my blog I'm coming to sites like this.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Harish — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:06:57 -0000

you saved me hours of research work. Thanks so much :)

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Joshua Nelson — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:05:29 -0000

Hey, great post! I've already created a bunch of page templates. I also created custom sidebars for each page, so I'm not using the thesis build sidebars function. However, I don't get my multimedia box above the sidebar, how would I go about doing that? I tried looking briefly for the function to build the multimedia box, but decided I would just ask you.

Thanks!
Joshua

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Dan — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:46:57 -0000

This is a great tutorial, and I did manage to create a custom home page with this, but I'm having one little problem.

The custom home page I created as two equally-wide columns. I created and added the two styles to custom.css, then added the custom home page template to custom_functions.php. The two columns appear nicely, but the footer doesn't want to clear both columns. Instead, it seems fixed about about 520 pixels below the header.

Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks, Dan

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Vishnu Kant Tripathi — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:12:12 -0000

yes this is really very helpful but any one help me out how it's theming is working.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Puneet Sahalot — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:14:54 -0000

Hey Berchman,
Thanks for the great post! This is what I was looking for. Just a quick question, will the custom template let me handle everything ? I mean, can I hide the default thesis stuff like sidebars, content box, footer ? I have complete code with me for the home page layout which I would like to use for home page instead of the default thesis layout. Is this possible ?