[Resolved] How to create page template in GP 3.1.0

Hi there,

any particular type of template or better put use case you’re after ?

For example:
are you working with a Custom Post Type that requires its own specific template?
or do you want design your own content template for a specific page or posts within a specific category?
or are you wanting to simply add a predesigned layout to the editor content?

sorry for the questioning but there are many flavours of templates and a few ways to do this depending on its use case.

Hi Phil,

I want to add some code (for an Algolia search result) to various parts of the page.

You can hook in your codes using a Hook Element.
Read more about it here – https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-element-overview/

As for hook location reference, you can use this visual guide
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-visual-guide/

Note: It’s not 100% complete but the most used ones are there.

If you have a breadcrumbs shortcode, you can insert that with a Hook element as well.

As for the title tag, it fetches whatever text you’ve added on a post or page’s title field on the backend. If you wish to modify this a bit you’ll need to resort to PHP filter. See my example here – https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/404-page-title-error/#post-1974085

Adding things after the content area can be done w/ either a Block Element - Hook or a Hook Element as well.

For Hook element specifically, you simply add the code that shows your details of a record you’ve looked up on it’s code area and hook it to generate_after_main_content

Is there a way to select a page template from the page editor or is it only based on the name of the template file(s)?

Hook element have the display rule option through its UI that lets you pick a specific page to apply the hooks, but not the template files used.

If you have a more specific condition for the Hook element, you’ll need to use this filter – https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_element_display/

I don’t want to use hooks. That will require setting the page ID in the code in multiple places, which does not seem as tidy to me. If I was customising the layout of every page I would do that, but not for one page.
How do I do it with a page template?

If the code to be hooked is dynamic then you won’t have to do it for every page. It should be a one and done setup for all taxonomy assuming all the values are fully dynamic and not empty.

If its simple fetching of page or post ID, we can always get it dynamically for each with get_queried_object_id() or get_the_ID().

If you wish to skip using hooks, the only way to go is by creating your own child theme template files for specific post types.

You can copy the default page template
https://github.com/tomusborne/generatepress/blob/master/page.php

and add a condition for the things you want to add.

you can always add this conditional code on certain parts of the page template.

if(is_page( array(123, 456, 789 ) )){ 
//do your thing here for page ids 123, 456 and 789.
} else {
// keep the default styling
}

Say for example, on the template, you want to conditionally add do_action( 'generate_before_main_content' );

You can do something like this –

if(is_page( array(123, 456, 789 ) )){ 
 //do nothing or return;
} else {
do_action( 'generate_before_main_content' );
}

With this concept in mind, we can programmatically add or modifies something based on whatever page id is specified.

And it’s nice because you only need to maintain 1 template plus its dynamic. 😀

This topic explains how to create a custom page template:

https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-page-template/#post-1875566

Glad to be of help!

No problem. Glad to be of any help. 😀