Title: Specify template in URL?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Specify template in URL?

 *  [Mannie Schumpert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mannieschumpert/)
 * (@mannieschumpert)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-template-in-url/)
 * I’ve been looking and looking and haven’t found such a thing, but is there a 
   way to specify what template is used to display a post in the URL?
 * What I mean is something like:
    blog.com/?p=23&template=special
 * For my purposes, neither conditional tags nor category templates will work.
 * Thanks for any insight!
    Mannie

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 *  [kongkang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kongkang/)
 * (@kongkang)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-template-in-url/#post-1613810)
 * To call template url
 * `bloginfo('template_url')`
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo)
 *  Thread Starter [Mannie Schumpert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mannieschumpert/)
 * (@mannieschumpert)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-template-in-url/#post-1613816)
 * Thanks, but that’s not what I was looking for. I’m not looking to display information
   about the currently used template.
 * Let me try to be more clear:
    I want a link to a post to specify the template
   with which the post is shown. Clicking on my hypothetical example above would
   display post 23 using the template named “special”.
 *  [kongkang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kongkang/)
 * (@kongkang)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-template-in-url/#post-1613943)
 * Custom Post Template will help you to select different templates.
    Try this plugin
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-template/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-template/)

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 * Last reply from: [kongkang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kongkang/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specify-template-in-url/#post-1613943)
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