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1. fluentdesigns
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I am having trouble with adding an additional template for my sub pages. I copy the template that I want to use as a start and add the following to the top of it:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: SubAds
   */
   ?>

   Now after I go to Admin>Manage>Pages>Edit> in the Page template dropdown it shows its name as:

   SubAds */ ?> then the actual code from the template is showing up!

   What am I doing wrong?

2. fluentdesigns
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Nobody has any clue to what is going on with this?

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Are you editing your template on Mac?

4. fluentdesigns
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Ya.. using dreamweaver

5. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   That's a deadly combination :)
   1. I hope you use the code mod... otherwise you'll always be screwed up.
   2. make sure you save the file after editing with the correct line breaks/ending - UNIX and not something else.

6. fluentdesigns
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   so what should I do then? Not sure I follow you

7. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Try to save the edited template file in a plain text editor and re-upload.

   In intelligent editors (maybe even in DW) you can define the line breaks as DOS or UNIX or MAC. You need Unix for the template files.

8. nikozz
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   *kick*

   I have another problem with multiple templates.

   The steps the startposter took to make a subpage with another template works fine for me, but the loop sums up the pages and not the posts.

   So I made a file called journal.php and added the template name code in the top of that file.

   Then, I added a new page in the wordpress back-end and activated the template setting.

   What is the right workround to create a landingpage(home.php, don't have a problem here), with sub-blogs(cant figure out how to create this).

   To clear things out, here's my idea:

   - Homepage

   • - Journal
   • - Music
   • - Photo

   - About
   - Contact

   My idea was to create a different template for each sub-blog: journal, music and photo

   Create posts and separate them by adding catagories for each item responding to their subblog name.

   (I hope i my point clear because english is not my native language)

9. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   There are no "sub-blogs" in WP. Just one single blog, that's for starters...

   Yes, journal, music, photo should be CATEGORIES , not Pages. Pages are not meant to display posts. Period.
   Category_Templates work just fine. Why do you need Pages?

   (your English is OK; your thinking of Pages is not OK :)

10. nikozz
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Do'h

    I was thinking way to difficult.

    In the codex, under Template Hierarchy In Detail, Page is the first linked item you run into. I think that confused me.

    Thanks for the fast feedback!

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