Title: Custom post type templating issues
Last modified: October 28, 2017

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# Custom post type templating issues

 *  [Rebastion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebh/)
 * (@sebh)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-templating-issues/)
 * Hi everyone. After a few hours of googling, I give up and I am hoping for some
   advice.
 * **What I am trying to do:** I created custom post types (I settled with Pods 
   plugin), but I don’t want the custom posts be based on the single post template(
   which shows date, author, and all that), but on the single page template.
 * **What I did:** I created a copy of the single page template file and named it
   single-movie.php (because “movie” is a custom post type I created). So far so
   good, a single post that is a movie, is now styled like a single page.
 * **The problem:** Hueman displays a post’s categories at the top of the page if
   it’s a post, but displays the page title if it’s a page (very inconsistent if
   you ask me). Since I want to use the page template for my custom post types, 
   I now have a situation where the page’s title isn’t displayed at all, I can’t
   seem to work out how to display the page title just in the same way post titles
   are usually displayed. And I would love to display a breadcrumb where the category
   usually is.
 * Any ideas? I’m puzzled by this very specific issue and inconsistency in the theme.
   I can’t be the only person running into this, as most of the custom post type
   use cases that are described in tutorials all over the web seem to be about types
   of content where “Page” is the more likely type of layout you want. Help greatly
   appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [Rebastion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebh/)
 * (@sebh)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-templating-issues/#post-9629430)
 * My only workaround I could think of is this: I work off the single post template
   file, remove what I don’t need displayed, and put a condition into the page-title.
   php that if the category of the custom post type content is a certain ID, then
   it will just display a custom text/link up where the category usually is. Thoughts?
 * I think it’s a lot of customization work. It would be great if themes had little
   check boxes of what elements to be displayed with what types of content. For 
   all the modularity in the world, wordpress themes are still horribly tangled 
   messes of interdependent php files

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