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1. tpeterson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all,
   I've got 3 different custom content types in my WordPress 3.1 site.
   For ease of management moving forward, I'd like to use the same page_type template for each custom content type.

   Obviously, I can create a post type specific template for each custom content type using the single-{post_type}.php

   But, what if I wanted to use the same template for each post type, how would I do that?

   Thanks!
   Troy

2. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   According to the Codex:

   Single CPT template file: single-{posttype}.php
   Archive/Index CPT template file: archive-{posttype}.php

   So, if you've named your CPT "prefix_foobar":

   Single CPT template file: single-prefix_foobar.php
   Archive/Index CPT template file: archive-prefix_foobar.php

3. tpeterson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Chip,

   Yes, on a per-cpt basis, I can create the template file for them.
   But, if I want to use the same template for multiple cpt's, that's what I'm looking for...

   So cpt's prefix_foobar1 & prefix_foobar2 both use single-prefix_foobar3.php as the template.

   I hope that makes more sense.

   Thanks!
   Troy

4. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The easiest thing to do might be to create "prefix_foobar.php" which contains your desired markup.

   Then, for each of your CPTs, create the appropriate template file, in which you simply call:
   

   get_template_part( 'prefix_foobar' );

   So, you'd still need to create each of the CPT template files, but you only have to maintain one single template file, that gets called by each one.

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