page template + metabox

Hey. Do you know how can i make a page that has a metabox value saved use a particular page template?

So,

do you intend to override the selected page template for that page if a meta value has a specific value?

If that is the case I think that at the beginning of each page template you have to check the meta value of the page and in that case include the specific template and stop the script to complete the current page creation…

Do you know kriesi’s page templates builder? The same idea. Create page templates and then assign them to pages. So you say first to check if it has the meta and then return if it has?

duotive said
Do you know kriesi’s page templates builder? The same idea. Create page templates and then assign them to pages. So you say first to check if it has the meta and then return if it has?

Mmm, well, I guess that’s a different thing… you can make that in many ways. I would leave the default page template as the only template for the pages and then register the modules using the template builder…

In the end those template builders works like shortcodes… a plain page where you put modules to create the layout…

Agreed but we have blog templates and portfolio templates ( page templates both ) and we cannot exclude them + we hate shortcodes and we did not take that approach with the “template builder”

duotive said
Agreed but we have blog templates and portfolio templates ( page templates both ) and we cannot exclude them + we hate shortcodes and we did not take that approach with the “template builder”

The shortcodes are just an example of modular contents

Btw, for what I think, if you have a template builder you don’t need templates already defined.

It should work like this:

Plain page -> add blog module

Plain page -> add portfolio module

If the template builder that you have in mind can’t edit the blog and portfolio templates just state that in the help, make it work just with the default template…

If you don’t alert people about that, then they would start to add modules to a blog template to then see their work voided by your script. So, just don’t allow the builder to those templates.

You could create your own page templating system like ive done:

@ThemeProvince And that is what? A side meta?

ParkerAndKent said

duotive said
Agreed but we have blog templates and portfolio templates ( page templates both ) and we cannot exclude them + we hate shortcodes and we did not take that approach with the “template builder”

The shortcodes are just an example of modular contents

Btw, for what I think, if you have a template builder you don’t need templates already defined.

It should work like this:

Plain page -> add blog module

Plain page -> add portfolio module

If the template builder that you have in mind can’t edit the blog and portfolio templates just state that in the help, make it work just with the default template…

If you don’t alert people about that, then they would start to add modules to a blog template to then see their work voided by your script. So, just don’t allow the builder to those templates.

I saw that approach but i dislike it because i think about user friendly and shortcodes with a lot of params are not user friendly. Thanks for the advices

duotive said
@ThemeProvince And that is what? A side meta?

Yes, a meta box with context set to the side.