Comments on: Simple Post Template Wordpress Plugin

By: Justin Lewis

Justin Lewis — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:18:07 +0000

Excellent plugin! I also think multiple templates would be a nice option.

By: Mouad

Mouad — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:28:47 +0000

Thanx for the nice plugin, but it sadly doesnt support Arabic. Saving the template went ok, but when inserting it by hitting the “insert” button, it pastes a mixture of ambigious sumbols, not Arabic.

Meanwhile, I created a TEMPLATE draft post that I will simply enter and copy its content to the new post.. this is even simpler than using the plugin

but thanx in any case..

By: Zach Lym

Zach Lym — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:10:03 +0000

I am seconding the multiple templates option!

Thanks,
-Zach

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By: Irwin

Irwin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:09:11 +0000

Great plug in.

Is it possible to add multiple post templates?

Thanks in advance.
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By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:28:30 +0000

Hey Clifton thanks for this handy plug-in. I installed it on my sister’s business site but I wanted to ask about an odd behavior I noticed.

The excerpt entry field is being auto-populated by four spaces when you save your settings. Upon subsequent saves, it adds a space to the four that were save the first time. Every time you save your settings, it adds another space.

I didn’t notice this at all until I was investigating why posts to Facebook were showing no description text. Facebook pulls first from the meta description if there is one and when I looked at the HTML for the pages of the site, the meta descriptions were full of spaces :-O

I tracked it back to the fact that Simple Post Template was inserting those spaces into the excerpt which some themes use to populate the meta descriptions.

Wasn’t sure if this was formally a bug so I figured I’d post the note here first.

Cheers.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:55:03 +0000

Hi. Thanks for the great plugin. Like others who have commented, it could save me a lot of time. Unfortunately, it seems to be incompatible with Advanced Excerpt, using WP 2.8.6. When I had both installed, Advanced Excerpt would not display the excerpt for any post that was made using the Simple Post Template. Sadly, I had to choose one of these plugins, and I really need custom excerpts. Sniff, sniff.

By: lawvol

lawvol — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:24:57 +0000

Well, I guess I would convert the button on the Edit Post screen into a dropdown menu to allow selection of templates.

Then I suppose you could add a “manage template” admin screen which allows you to see and edit the templates available.

Here is a link to some screenshots from another template plugin which sort of represent what I was thinking: WP Plugins: Post Templates > Screenshots

I suppose the biggest thing is just to permit the creation of multiple templates, and the ability to select those templates from within the edit post window.

Thanks for making this available!

By: Clifton Griffin

Clifton Griffin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:15 +0000

Hi Lawvol,
It seems I missed Shannon’s comment before.

Can you describe how you would like this to work from an administration/practical standpoint?

ie, how would you like to manage these multiple templates?

By: lawvol

lawvol — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:54:23 +0000

I agree with Shannon. This plugin has the best interface and function of any of the template plugins I’ve seen. If it ONLY had the ability to support multiple templates I would deploy it in a minute (I am needing it to help provide templates to my multiple authors who aren’t HTML saavy).

If it could do that, it would be awesome…