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1. magaworks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am developing a blog with multiauthor and I am having problems because I want them to choose between just 2 templates and the page has to be created under their own main page.

   Explaining better thi sis the situation:

   Each author has his own main Page. Then they can create as many pages as they want, but always under their own main page. This I accomplished with Role Scopper that gives them only acces to their main page, so any page they create will be a subpage of that one. And then in their main page I can list all subpages.
   But I want them to select from 2 templates, but I have 5 page templates. I do not want them to see the others, so I was thinking about creating a magic field where they can select between just these 2 templates with a drop down, but I have no idea how to call the the right template for the page with magic fields because the template field is already a custom field for pages with their own values.

   Should I do this in another way? Like a special category of posts with a special template and list all posts by author under their main page?
   And can I hide this category from showing anywhere on the blog besides under their main page?

   Any ideas how to make these two things work together?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magic-fields/

2. magaworks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I figured out how to do this.

   I created a single template page for authors to use.
   Then I created a new write panel for them using that specifc template.
   Then I created a new Custom field for them to choose the Style of the template, based on it's colors (templateColor).
   Finally in that single template page for authors I have a condition to check for custom field 'templateColor' and load the right template page.
   If they don't choose a template, then it will load one of them by default.
   Here is the code for the template. Hope this helps someone having the same issue. I haven't tried it yet but it seems logical that this works. When I implement this I will check here again updating whether it worked or not.

   <?php /*
   
   	Template Name: Criaturas Works Single Page
   
   */
   ?>
   <?php
   	$template_color = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'templateColor' );
   	// Page Light colors
   	if ( $template_color = 'light' )
   	{
   		include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/page-works_light.php');
   	}
   	// Page Dark colors
   	elseif ( $template_color = 'dark' )
   	{
   		include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/page-works_dark.php');
   	}
   	// No style selected
   	else
   	{
   		include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/page-works_dark.php');
   	}
   	?>

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