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Samuel Glister
Samuel Glister
12,471 Points
Posted by Samuel Glister
Samuel Glister
12,471 Points

Adding custom theme template to custom post type

I've created a new custom post type called MemberPost and want it to follow a slightly different template to my main index (which is where main news is kept). I've created a custom post type and inserted this into my functions.php.

    add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

    add_action( 'init', 'register_cpt_member_post' );

    function register_cpt_member_post() {

    $labels = array(
        'name' => __( 'MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'member-post' ),
        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'new_item' => __( 'New MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'view_item' => __( 'View MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'search_items' => __( 'Search MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
        'not_found' => __( 'No memberpost found', 'member-post' ),
        'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'No memberpost found in Trash', 'member-post' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent MemberPost:', 'member-post' ),
        'menu_name' => __( 'MemberPost', 'member-post' ),
    );

    $args = array(
        'labels' => $labels,
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'description' => 'Post containing the months member content',
        'supports' => array( 'editor', 'title', 'thumbnail'),
        'public' => false,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'show_in_menu' => true,
        'menu_position' => 5,
        'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'exclude_from_search' => true,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'query_var' => true,
        'can_export' => true,
        'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'member-post'),
        'capability_type' => 'post'
    );

    register_post_type( 'member_post', $args );
    flush_rewrite_rules();
    }

I then create the single-memberPost.php but I can't get the theme to use this custom post template.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

1 Answer

Samuel Glister
Samuel Glister
12,471 Points
Samuel Glister
Samuel Glister
12,471 Points

Sorted it - the theme template should have been single-member_post.php not single-memberPost.php!