Wordpress Problem: Loop through your custom page templates and add their content to the single page layout

Question

Hey!

I am developing a custom Wordpress theme, that is supposed to be a single page theme, and I am facing problem when trying to get my custom page template content to display on my site.

I have read the documentation and tried stuff out but I don't seem to get it work. I have created a couple of Wordpress themes before, and also created a single page theme before, but that didn't use custom pages. I am not a Wordpress expert and am still not familiar with a lot of the functions.

My situation right now is that I have a loop in my page.php that goes through the pages and posts each page's content to a section element so the content is displayed on a single page. This content however is only the content that I have written in the editor when editing the page and not the custom content from my page-cv.php or my page-music.php files. I am able to display the custom content with <? php get_template_part() ?> but the page then has duplicate sections of my music and cv sections since my loop already displays the content from the page editor.

so is there a way to loop through all the pages and somehow check if a template is a custom template and show its content and if not, show the "default" content.

I would really appreciate help!

Answer 1 · 2017-04-06T09:42:48Z

April 6, 2017 9:42am

I actually figured this out after all with my oh so fresh morning brain. Pretty easy solution, I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out

here's my page.php code

<?php


get_header();

$args = array(
    'sort_order' => 'ASC',
    'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 
    'hierarchical' => 1,
    'exclude' => '',
    'child_of' => 0,
    'parent' => -1,
    'exclude_tree' => '',
    'number' => '',
    'offset' => 0,
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'post_status' => 'publish'
);



$pages = get_pages($args);

foreach ($pages as $page_data) {

    $content = apply_filters('content', $page_data->post_content);
    $slug = $page_data->post_name;
?>


<section>

<?php 

if($slug == "cv") { ?>
    <div>
 <?php echo $content;?>
 </div>
 <?php
    get_template_part("page", "cv");
}
if($slug == "music") {
    ?><div>
    <?php echo $content;?></div>
    <?php
    get_template_part("page", "music");
}else{
?>

<?php echo $content; ?>

<?php } ?>

</section>


<?php 
}
?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I don't have get_header or get_footer in my page templates so they will not get posted on my site.

Answer 2 · 2018-04-23T19:11:16Z

April 23, 2018 7:11pm

You can simply do get_template_part('page', $slug); This way you dont need the if statement and the code is cleaner and less repetitive :)

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