codismo

I often need to know which page template is applied to which page. In some cases, it’s a lot of pages.
I would have to go to the quick edit screen for each page and then check the template used and make a note of it for future reference. That takes too much time.
So instead I wrote this little plugin that adds the page template information in a new column of the table at WP Admin > Pages.
More info about the plugin at <a href="http://codismo.com/plugins/page-template-column" rel="nofollow ugc">codismo.com</a>

Page Template Column

I love a good small single-purpose plugin. This one fits the bill perfect. Also has a good joke in the code... 😃

Does one thing and does it well

Adds a column to the pages table in WP Admin > Pages displaying the page template used.

LorenW

In WordPress each page must be intentionally assigned a template (or have a template file intentionally named for it) or WordPress applies the default page.php template. Child pages do not inherit parent page templates. On a large website with many child pages within a hierarchy of pages this does not make for an easy or error free way to use page templates to create a sectioned CMS. A user can assign a template to a top level page (or a “beginning of section” page) but its descendants (child pages) will not follow with their ancestor’s template. Each page’s template must be individually assigned. For small sites with few pages and few users this is not a significant matter. On a site with hundreds or thousands of pages and multiple editors and multiple “sections” this makes WordPress less than ideal as a CMS platform
This plugin solves that problem. It investigates each page and assigns hierarchical templates to pages and their children giving precedence to page-[id].php templates. If no page-[id].php templates are found all the way up the ancestory tree then it will check for page-[slug].php templates back up the ancestory tree. If those are not found then it will look for a meta assigned custom.php template – first for the currently selected page and then if the page does not have a custom.php template assigned the function will look back up the ancestory tree to see if an ancestor page has been assigned a custom.php template. If all of these fail it will fall back to WP’s default page.php template.
There is more description at http://www.warkensoft.net/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-hierarchical-page-template-redirect-plugin/

Hierarchical Page Template Redirect

Assigns hierarchical templates to pages and their children giving precedence to the page-[id].php templates.

Page Template Column vs Hierarchical Page Template Redirect