Title: custom template posts issue
Last modified: July 10, 2017

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# custom template posts issue

 *  [ahmedmz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahmedmz/)
 * (@ahmedmz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/)
 * Hello
    i added a new page template with custom edit and called it template-mobile-
   app.php , it show posts and works well , Now how can i force the posts that shown
   in this template to view with custom single file not default one ? it’s possible?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/#post-9303688)
 * On this page template, what are you trying to display? The page’s content entered
   on it’s backend edit screen in the tinyMCE editor? Or are you querying other 
   posts and want to display their content?
 * Either way you generally use the_content(), the setup in each case is different
   though. I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to do. A page template is
   a sort of single post template that is specific for pages. Why do you want another
   single template? A single template is a full page template — header, body, sidebar,
   footer. Do you want all this within your page template that is also outputting
   header, body, sidebar, footer as well?
 * I would think you want a template part, not a full page. Many themes compose 
   their templates of these parts that are common to several full page templates.
   Thus code can be updated on one file instead of updating the same thing on several
   files. You load template parts with get_template_part(). Such templates need 
   to be in the theme’s folder somewhere.
 * You can also load template parts like you would load any PHP code file from another,
   with `require` or `include` statements. get_template_part() essentially does 
   the same thing, but it has special functionality to find the right file in the
   theme and ensuring the proper text domain is loaded for it.
 *  Thread Starter [ahmedmz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahmedmz/)
 * (@ahmedmz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/#post-9307139)
 * Hi , thanks for reply
    first i will tell you what i do . i’m working on small
   Mobile App that only view last posts from specified category .(will put it in
   Mobile App as Iframe) that’s away from default version i it should be without
   header and footer and sidebar , so i thought in using template file . 1-i copied
   file template-blog.php from theme to new file with name template-mobile-app.php
   and i deleted header and footer from it . 2-i created an empty page “app-template”
   and changed Template from Page attributes to the new one . 3- [http://www.website.com/app-template](http://www.website.com/app-template).
   the link works as i want, to put it in Mobile App Iframe , but when i browse 
   posts , it shown with header and footer and it’s the issue , i want it Without
   it.
 * (this page is only for Mobile App) .
    The idea is that this is done entirely 
   within the specified template so that the site is not affected by this customization
 * I hope you understand what is required
    how can i do it ? thanks
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/#post-9307303)
 * Thanks for the explanation, yes I understand. I’m unsure why you are getting 
   extra page content, it may be iframe related. I agree a custom page template 
   is a good approach. I would advise not copying any more than necessary from theme
   files. Only enough so that the CSS styles are properly applied. Build your template
   the way you want it to be.
 * While you do not need to load the header, you do need to call wp_head() or external
   resources will not be loaded. Also call wp_footer() at the very end. Despite 
   the names, these generally do not generate visible output, they merely do certain
   actions that are required to load scripts and stylesheets. You do need the minimal
   HTML from your header template — !DOCTYPE, html, head, charset, viewport, and
   body elements. Plus any major containers used by your theme.
 * Make a new WP_Query object that gets the desired posts and then run a Loop to
   display the posts in whatever manner you wish. No need to include or load other
   templates. Put it all on your one page template that stands on its own.
 * A completely different approach would be to get the posts data you want using
   the REST API. It will come as JSON data. It would be up to your app to parse 
   the data and compose the output. Maybe you don’t want to consider this right 
   now, but I urge you to look into this sometime soon if you intend to continue
   developing mobile apps.
 *  Thread Starter [ahmedmz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahmedmz/)
 * (@ahmedmz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/#post-9310694)
 * thanks alot
    please can you help me to do this
 * this is the template file
 *     ```
       <?php 
       /*
       Template Name: Mobile App Template
       */
       ?>
   
       <?php get_header('mobapp'); ?>
   
   
       	<div class="content">
   
       		<?php if( get_query_var('page') ) $paged = get_query_var('page') ; ?>
   
   
       		<div class="page-head">
       			<h1 class="page-title">
       				<?php the_title(); ?>
       			</h1>
       		</div>
   
   
   
       		<?php
       			$blog_cats = unserialize($get_meta["blog_cats"][0]);
       			if( empty( $blog_cats ) ) $blog_cats = get_all_category_ids();
   
       			query_posts( array( 'paged' => $paged , 'category__in' => $blog_cats ));
       			get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' );
       			if ($wp_query->max_num_pages > 1) pagenavi(); 
       			?>
   
   
   
       		<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
       	</div><!-- .content -->
   
        <?php get_footer('mobapp'); ?>
       ```
   
 * well it display list of posts with Specific header and footer
    Please keep in
   mind that the page of this template works without a problem , but when you go
   to the page displaying the Selected news like(/?p=123) it appears containing 
   the default header and footer of theme.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-template-posts-issue/#post-9310908)
 * Ah! I got it now (I hope)! So the post ID 123 is one of the posts listed on this
   template. When following the link, you want it to show the mobile app header/
   footer. But on a lap or desktop, directly requesting that same post should show
   the normal header/footer. Am I correct? Sorry for being a little dense, I was
   on another track entirely.
 * Well, even though it’s not what you want, that is normal, expected behavior for
   WP, but that can be changed. Do you have a similar template for non-mobile devices?
   Is the header/footer the only difference? How do mobile users come to be using
   this template? Are you using wp_is_mobile()? You could use wp_is_mobile() to 
   serve one header/footer or the other, all on a single template. This alone still
   would not help the single post ID 123, but you could also use the same wp_is_mobile()
   logic on single.php and any other templates to load the mobile content when appropriate.
 * A completely different approach would be to load the clicked post via Ajax on
   the same template/page, either replacing the initial list or overlaying it using
   a modal. The way the single post is displayed would depend on what your Ajax 
   client script and server handler do together. It’s conceivable a template could
   be part of this, but you are better off developing your own code. Use the same
   containers and classes, etc. that your theme does so the appearance is consistent.
   With Ajax, you would need to capture back button events to deliver the expected
   results because the device thinks the user is still on the your initial page 
   and an uncaptured back button would load whatever was up before your page instead
   of going back to the initial list.
 * It’s not so important that it must be addressed right away, but you shouldn’t
   be using query_posts() these days. There’s more efficient ways to do queries.
   Either instantiate a new WP_Query object (or use get_posts()) or use the “pre_get_posts”
   action to alter the original request’s query vars to meet your needs.

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