Different Specific Template for the same page

Have you reviewed custom page templates?

Yes,

This is not the solution because you could have only one page template per page, and I need to know from which menu the page demande comes from to adapt my template.

I don’t know what you mean by ‘depending on the menu in use’.

Do you mean your using wp_nav_menu, and that a particular page might be added to multiple menus – and you need to detect which menu a user clicked on to arrive at the page?

If thats what you mean, I’m not sure how you might achieve that, unless you filtered the permalinks being generated in that menu and added a query parameter like you said.

However, if you don’t mean what I described above, you might mean that you have several sites where you’re using the same theme, and want to use different templates depending on which menu (of a pre-determined set) has been assigned to a particular location. If thats what you mean, then you could just use has_nav_menu() to check each location.

I’m going the guess that second version, since it seems to make the most sense.

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You also asked about using a query string to determine the template. You could so that with something like this, although I wouldn’t really recommend this.

function filter_page_template($template){

        /* Lets see if 'template is set' */
        if( isset($_GET['template']) ) {

            /* If so, lets try to find the custom template passed as in the query string. */
            $custom_template = locate_template( $_GET['template'] . '.php');

            /* If the custom template was not found, keep the original template. */
            $template = ( !empty($custom_template) ) ?  $custom_template : $template;
        }

        return $template;
}
add_filter('page_template', 'filter_page_template');

Thanks,

what I mean is using wp_nav_menu, and that a particular page might be added to multiple menus with multiple different views of that article.

I will try your querystring example. Why did you wrote “although I wouldn’t really recommend this.” ? Is this dangerous ?

Thanks a lot

Regards

One more thig,

Is there an information when showing a page, telling to which menu this page is owning ? A specific query that could retrieve this information ?

Thanks.

I don’t recommend that because it would allow anyone to simple type in any /<filename> and run any file in your theme folder. It could be a security problem.

Not sure how you would be able to specify which menu is being clicked – you may need to add a query string param to each menu item. Which would probably mean you need to write your own nav item walker, and depending on how you’de want to do the query string var, you may need to add a custom rewrite rule to capture that variable.