Comments on: Commonly Useful Page Templates

By: Shibi Kannan

Shibi Kannan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:48:46 +0000

Really fantastic, now I know custom fields can be used for anything you desire – talk about flexibility

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:05:26 +0000

The use of custom fields to control the template is a good idea. In projects where I use custom fields I really like the Custom Field Template

By: Dev Words

Dev Words — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:07:59 +0000

Thats a good idea, would streamline the way you use WordPress. Really speed things up. Not that most bloggers would need to make new pages alot.

Good for people who use it as a CMS

By: John Hoff - WpBlogHost

John Hoff - WpBlogHost — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:16:36 +0000

Great ideas. These can be used for landing pages.

Lately, because of all the upgrades and at times slowness of WordPress to load, I’ve been leaning towards if it doesn’t have a comment section and your sidebar isn’t important for a particular landing page, it should be a simple html page.

Loads quicker and requires less maintenance.

By: David Zemens

David Zemens — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:49:41 +0000

This is an interesting approach as an alternative to using custom template pages. I can see some usefulness for such a technique. Thanks for sharing the idea.

By: sven

sven — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:51:57 +0000

i like the idea with the if statement for the sidebar

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:47:58 +0000

I love the custom fields option because then you can say to a client, “just type this in if you don’t want the sidebar to appear”. Nice and easy, no phone calls.

I also use if (is_page(‘about-me’,'contact’) etc. then load a sidebar or whatever. Of course, that’s manually done in the code each time then.

nice post!

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:19:40 +0000

There are lots of tutorials on how to make a page template. Here is one that is a little dated but is still exactly how it is done. It also includes a little screencast.

By: bert boan

bert boan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:16:04 +0000

This article just gained you a follower my friend. Well well done!

By: Benjie

Benjie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:22:46 +0000

Should have made this like a beginner tutorial. For example on how to make a Page Template. Then you put the procedure on all the four templates that you use often. How to do that, not only show the picture. It would be better to understand specially for beginners like me…