[Support request] How to edit page template for custom post type

[Jim]

Earlier I made a custom post type called ncpage. It’s supposed to be a page-type. To edit the page template for it, I just took a copy of page.php, renamed it single-ncpage.php, commented out the parts about building sidebar and comment sections, and put it in the child theme. It worked fine.

Now with the new way templates work, I can’t figure it out. There are functions for building the template. I’ve tried to track them but can’t find filters or hooks to do the above. Can you help with that?

[Tom]

Hi there,

The “old” way of building page templates still works in GP 3.0 the same it did in 2.x.

Is something not working now that you updated?

[Jim]

Thanks. Keeping the custom template based on the old template file still works. But I understood one should migrate their custom templates when the template file is updated. And if I needed to do it now and didn’t have the old theme template file, I wouldn’t know how to do it.

I also had a custom 404 page. I was able to update that by tracing from the new 404.php to content-404.php, and saw the generate_404_text filter there I could use, so don’t need a custom template anymore. I thought maybe there was something similar I could do with the custom post type.

[Tom]

You should definitely compare the files and make any updates to the markup/hooks/filters. However, you can keep the custom parts of the file as they are without any issues 🙂

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