nickposs

Just what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. (Not sure why that didn’t turn up in all of my searches.)

I understand, but there is no drop box for Template in the page editor. Digging around the forum, I found it suggested that you should switch themes and try again. Still, I don’t see the menu. My only choices are Parent and Order. When I go into the Appearances–>Editor, all of the custom templates show up and can be edited. I just can’t find a way to select them when I’m within the page editor. (Hope that makes sense.)

So, editing the page.php in the template directory has the desired effect. I would still really like to be able to select the template while editing the post or page, though. It seems like this was available in earlier WordPress versions. Am I simply ignoring this option somewhere. I have created a couple of test .php templates to see if that triggers the menu, but no luck.

Okay, a breakthrough. I finally figured out that I needed to be editing the php files in the Panorama theme directory. I had been editing the ones in root. Already, the above mentioned deletion had the desired effect. I’ll keep trying.

Well, I tried editing the page.php, but it didn’t make any difference for the static pages. For example, I tried removing the author meta: `<div class=”authormeta”><?php _e(‘By’,’panorama’); ?>
<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>,<?php the_date($ap_dateTimeFormat); ?> </div>`

But the posts still show “Posted by” and the date. My guess is that it is not even using the page.php to generate it and I’m not sure how to select that as the template. Going through the codex, it looks like it was easy to select a template for each new plate, but I can’t find any updated info on how to do it in 2.7.