Page templates: best practice and approach

  • magnusluca

    (@magnusluca)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    I couldnt find much debate on this on Google, but meanwhile building a new theme for a project, I suddenly became unsure of best approach to build specific page templates.
    Say I need specific templates for certain pages, I see 3 main approaches:

    • Create a template by comment name and choose the template in the page dashboard
    • Create a specific template by filename: slug or id, example ‘page-mypage.php’

      • Or a third way I was thinking of:

    • Have page.php as main template for all sites and then use specific get_template_part by looking at what page is currently in loop

    The third way would give some consistency by making sure that get header, footer, sidebar etc is done the same. Any thoughts?

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