Question

(This post has been submitted on the Yootheme forums but I don’t have as much confidence in a solution so I thought I’d post it here too.)

I’m using the Nano theme from Yoothemes and its working great for 90% of my site. http://dofekit.org However I’ve just installed the bbPress forum plugin (not on the live site, but a local version) and I have created 2 ‘forums’. The forum index page and all sub-pages seem to be inserted into a standard Nano page template. This is not suitable for the forum as it includes the page meta information and also I see no way of turning off ‘sidebar-a’ for the forums as my screenshot demonstrates.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/240752/forums.jpg

Is there a way of creating a separate template for the forum post type within the yoothemes framework? ( I know its kind of proprietary but I can but ask)

Thanks.

UPDATE:

I’m part of the way there. I’ve manged to make separate templates for my forum post types like so, but I still need to get the custom post types to be acknowledged in the widget settings.

I’ve added the custom post types in warp/systems/wordpress3.0/layouts/content.php

if (is_home()) {
    $content = 'index';
} elseif (is_page()) {
    $content = 'page';
} elseif (is_attachment()) {
    $content = 'attachment';
} elseif ((is_single()) && (get_post_type() == 'forum')) {
    $content = 'forum-single';
}elseif ((is_single()) && (get_post_type() == 'topic')) {
    $content = 'topic-single';
} elseif (is_single()) {
    $content = 'single';
} elseif (is_search()) {
    $content = 'search';
}elseif ((is_archive()) && (get_post_type() == 'forum')) {
    $content = 'forum-archive';
} elseif (is_archive() && is_author()) {
    $content = 'author';
} elseif (is_archive()) {
    $content = 'archive';
} elseif (is_404()) {
    $content = '404';
}

I’ve also added these custom post types into
warp/systems/wordpress3.0/config/layouts/fields/profile.php
in an effort to get them to appear in the dropdown lists on each widget. (I want to be able to toggle widgets on these new custom templates.)

$defaults = array(
    'home'    => 'Home',
    'archive' => 'Archive',
    'search'  => 'Search',
    'single'  => 'Single',
    'page'    => 'Pages',
    'forum-archive' => 'Forum List',
    'forum-single' => 'Forum Single',
    'topic-single' => 'Topic Single'
);

Can anyone please help? I think I’m almost there with this.

Answer 1

You should be able to handle this using a WordPress Template for your custom post type for single post display.

For example if your custom post type is called “product” create a template called single-product.php e.g. single-{post_type}.php

This solution should work irrespective of Yoothemes framework, Let me know if that works!