Custom post type - selecting the template

How can you let users to select page template for custom post type?

I’m calling register_post_type with ‘hierarchical’ => true and ‘supports’ => array(‘editor’, ‘title’, ‘page-attributes’), but template selection dropbox doesn’t appear

Thanks!

I’m having the same issue, have you found a solution?

Should anyone have this same issue, it’s because they are post types, not pages, hence the page template selection drop down will not show….

I used <?php if(is_single(‘id’)){ }?> in my single.php to display the additional custom template pieces I needed.

Cheers

Hey Michael maybe this will help http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2765/adding-page-attributes-metabox-and-page-templates-to-the-posts-edit-page

See the last answer

add_action('add_meta_boxes','add_post_template_metabox');
function add_post_template_metabox() {
    add_meta_box('postparentdiv', __('Post Template'), 'post_template_meta_box', 'post', 'side', 'core');
}

To this:

add_action('add_meta_boxes','add_post_template_metabox');
function add_post_template_metabox() {
    add_meta_box('postparentdiv', __('Post Template'), 'post_template_meta_box', 'custom_post-type', 'side', 'core');
}

Where custom_post_type is the slug of your post type.

Tell me the results mate

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EDIT :Not sure if this is the best solution, Codex says ”’page-attributes’ (template and menu order, hierarchical must be true)”

Maybe you can ask in http://wpquestions.com/ or check this article http://www.twothirdsdesign.co.uk/article/2010/03/setting-templates-for-wordpress-3-0-custom-post-type/

I just found this tutorial. looks pretty good and should cover all your questions

http://www.vooshthemes.com/blog/wordpress-tip/create-a-professional-portfolio-using-wordpress-3-0-custom-post-types/