Custom Post Types – Single Post Page

[lisabee]

I know I have done this with Aspen but am having trouble working it with Weaver Xtreme. I have a custom post type ‘gasket’ and a page set to the template Page with Posts. Everything works great on that page. When I click on a post I want to be able to program a custom display using templates/content-gasket.php. However, I cannot figure out how to trigger the page with posts template to run the custom ‘gasket’ single post page. I even took the page with posts template (paget-posts.php) and saved a copy under the name paget-gasket.php then switched my blog page to use that template; only then all my page with posts configuration goes away and it displays a blank page (no posts).

Can you please tell me how I can have my blog page use the page with posts template for my cpt ‘gasket’ and the single post page to use the templates/content-gasket.php?

(all the gasket programs are in a child theme)

[Weaver]

ALL single page views are processed by single.php, which in turn uses templates/content-single.php. That is hard wired.

So, to use a custom single page view of a cpt, you’d have to use a replacement templates/content-single.php that has a check for post type, and uses the alternate display code. That would be easiest, I think.

Or you could change the code at the single.php level and use your content-gasket.php instead of content-single.php. Either approach would work, I think.

[lisabee]

OK … thank you weaver!

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