Make specific page templates available to certain users

  • Resolved dguyen

    (@dguyen)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    I fully understand how to make certain themes available to certain blogs in our network, but is there a way to make page templates I design available for certain blogs.

    If WP 3.xx did not create a “virtual” directory for each blog, I could go into the theme files and manually add the page-template.php file into the directory.

    Can someone offer any insight? Planning for the future, I’d like the blogs to reference a central directory for the page-template.php (so that if any changes were needed, only one file would need attention).

    Seeing if that each blog in the network had it’s own functions.php file I could easily add a php include function with the appropriate file…

    I imagine andrea_r will be the first to remark? hmmm?

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  • Page templates are theme dependent, so… how would have a central repository for them work with multiple themes? ??

    It’s also completely counter to how themes handle templates at the moment.

    Let’s just assume for the moment that you’re making really big & full page templates that completely override whatever theme is in use. (for the sake of argument, as it can be done…)

    Currently, you can’t restrict access to a page template without restricting access to the theme itself. Not sure if an if statement at the top would work, as in “if this is blog #12, show this page template”.

    For having one repo, you could also set up symlinks.

    whether or not it’s a good idea is another question. ??

    Thread Starter dguyen

    (@dguyen)

    Thanks Andrea_r, you’ve confirmed my notions.

    I was hoping to create a parent theme for my network that included various page-templates. I wanted to make those page-templates only available to certain users who’ve paid for them. It looks as if, that’s not going to happen.

    I guess I’ll have to offer various themes with certain page-templates included.

    Thanks again Andrea_r

    Can I take a wild stab of a guess that they contain squeeze pages? ??

    Thread Starter dguyen

    (@dguyen)

    No, no, no. No marketing here. I’m creating a site for people to display their portfolio of work (whatever they please, whether it’s written, graphic designs, print, web, coding, etc…) and the different page-templates would allow the user to decide how that particular page is laid-out or styled.

    ie. Let’s say the default theme only comes with a default-pagetemeplate. They want to display their “written” masterpiece, they could then purchase my writers-pagetemplate ($1) and then they also want to display their greeting card designs, so they could then purchase my printdesign-pagetemplate… now they would have access to two more page-templates.

    Does any of that make any sense? I like info graphics, my written explanations are not so concise…

    Thread Starter dguyen

    (@dguyen)

    My obstacles as you recognized were:

    • restricting access to paid user
    • allowing purchased page-templates to span multiple-themes

    I thought if there were a way for all the new themes to inherit a repository of page-templates (sorta like a child theme inherits the parent theme), then all I would need to work on is the “restricted access” part.

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