Sam Hotchkiss

One of the shortcomings of Custom Post Types in WordPress is that there’s no way to easily set a different custom template from the standard single.php. If it’s a custom post type, it’s got custom information, and I want to put it in a custom template!
So I threw together a plugin to handle this. With this plugin installed and activated, it checks your template directory for posttype.php then t_posttype.php. If neither exists, then the standard WP template rules take effect.
For example, if your custom post type is ‘books’, it’s going to check your template directory for ‘books.php’. If it finds it, it will use that as the template for your ‘books’ posts. If not, it will check for ‘t_books.php’, and use that as the template for your ‘books’ posts. If it finds neither, the standard WP logic kicks into place, looking to see if you’ve defined a template for the post, and, if not, using single.php.

Custom Post Type Template Redirect

For custom post types, allows you to have default templates specific to each custom post type.

ivycat

Brady Vercher

Eric Amundson

AJ Mallory

anvilzephyr

Patrick Jackson

Easily add one or more posts to any page using simple shortcodes.
Supports categories, tags, custom post types, custom taxonomies, date ranges, post status, and much more.
You can get all of the same functionality provided by this plugin by modifying your theme’s template files; this plugin just makes it easy for anyone to pull posts into other areas of the site without having to get their hands dirty with code.
Plugin is depending upon your theme’s styling; version 1.x of this plugin does not contain native styles.
This is a minimal plugin, function over form. Give us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and any other contributions on the in the plugin’s <a href="https://github.com/ivycat/posts-in-page" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.

Posts in Page

Easily add one or more posts to any page using simple shortcodes.

Custom Post Type Template Redirect vs Posts in Page