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Stephen Villabona
3,808 PointsCustom page instead of custom post?
Instead of creating another section called Portfolio unit post types, can we make it so they are pages? I want to create multiple page sections in the admin area called "Communities", "Team Members" etc for my real estate page and I want to be able to swap the page templates depending on the page content? ... or is there a way to apply custom page templates to the posts?
2 Answers
Craig Watson
27,930 PointsHi Stephen,
Can you give be a little more info on the content of the site so I can better direct you to a solution?
From what I am gathering you want to control the layout of your content a little more than the default WP Admin will allow for? Be that post or pages you want the freedom?
Let me know :)
Craig
Stephen Villabona
3,808 PointsHi Craig, thank you for your response. I think I jumped the gun in asking my question. The following tutorial explained how to set up a custom template for "custom post type" by just setting up "single-$postype.php". I guess I just get confused that it has to be a "post-type" not "page-type". When I think post, I think blog post and I'm more trying to create different page templates that I can also create the different fields within those pages, if that makes sense.
I would like to just click "create a page" and then within the new page select from different page template options such as "community" or "team member". From there, say for the "community" page template, I want to create input fields that will take: images for a slider, community address, description, amenities, general info/facts section and a section where I can put <script> codes that will connect to an IDX field to display MLS listings. I have at least 80-100 communities I will be including so I'm trying to just make 1 page template that will then replicate all the pages, I would just have to input info. I can probably do all this with the custom post type, but like I said, I just got confused when it said post and not page. I think I can make it work, just need to learn more code.
Here is my current website: http://eastvalleyurban.com - I want to build something very similar in concept.
At this point, I think I'm in the right direction, I need to just keep moving forward with the tutorials.