Custom Templates

Hello @luisalejandrewp
Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

As things are right now, there is no documentation for the custom templates feature of the plugin. I should also mention that this is a feature aimed at developers, as it involves writing code, especially CSS.

If you interested on how it works, you can take a look at this example of this “blank” template https://gitlab.com/w33zy/rpr_blank

To use it you would create a folder named “recipepress” in your current theme’s root folder, then copy the “rpr_blank” into it. Then you would select the new “Rpr Blank” template from the plugin settings.

Thank you very much for your quick reply and for providing that blank example template, I will definitely give it a try!

Hi again, @w33zy

I created the “recipepress” folder in my child theme’s root folder and copied a fresh example template to it, based on your blank template. Then the first thing I noticed is that I couldn′t get my new template screenshot to be shown under “Recipe Templates“.

By inspecting the html code on the Appearance settings page of your plugin I noticed it was trying to retreive the screenshot image from a “recipepress” folder of the parent theme and, therefore, could not find it because it is in the child theme.

Then I took a look at the plugin code and found that the function
add_layout_to_list( $dir_name ) in the class-layouts.php file uses get_template_directory_uri().

Shouldn′t it be get_stylesheet_directory_uri() instead?

Thanks again, Kemory.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Luis Alejandre.

Hello @luisalejandrewp

You are correct. It has just occurred to me that in all my testing and development of this feature I have never used a child-theme before.

I have updated that line to use get_stylesheet_directory_uri() and I’ve also updated the “rpr_blank” GitLab repo