When setting the 'Posts Page:' to a custom page within the 'Reading' settings of WordPress, it will by default, ignore that page's set template.
"Posts page - Select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your Posts... any Template assigned the Page will be ignored and the theme's index.php (or home.php if it exists) will control the display of the posts."
Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_SubPanel
Plugin resolves the above issue, allowing WordPress to use the custom template set for that specific page.
Display Author Option
You can choose how the author is being displayed without changing the theme.
You can currently choose from these options:
Default - What the user selected to display publicly
First Name Last Name
Last Name First Name
Nickname
Username
First Name
Last Name
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Templatify
Templatify gives the ability to select custom templates for each post type, even custom post types, as for Pages.
Once you activate Templatify, a "Select Template" box will appear in every post edit screen filled with Pages Templates.
You can also add post type specific templates: just add "Templat.........
Cpt custom page template
Adding Template Options to a WordPress Custom Post Type
Major features in Cpt custom page template include:
Adding Template Options to a WordPress Custom Post Type
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WP Custom Post Template
This plugin lets you add the custom post templates in your WordPress custom post type. You can easily apply your custom post template in custom post type single page like page template.
The templates are defined similarly to page templates, and will replace single.php for the specified post.
Admin.........
WP Custom Post Template Redux
This plugin lets you add the custom post templates in your WordPress custom post type. You can easily apply your custom post template in custom post type posts, just as you would do the same for page templates.
The templates are defined similarly to page templates, and if selected will replace sing.........
AMS Single Post Template Selector
This plugin allows you to choose different template for individual post, for the purpose of single post view, by selecting previously created post template from the provided drop-down list in the post edit screen.
The plugin will replace the default template (single.php) with selected template for .........
Template Sync
Copy the HTML from your WordPress theme to another application's template library. Designed for use with WHMCS but will work with other applications.
Add the following hints to your WordPress theme files. The hints will be used to update another application's template files. Click Sync Template wh.........
SmartPost Templates
What is SmartPost?
It is a template builder and authoring tool that is user centered. No programming or coding knowledge required....
Advanced Category Template
Custom templates is what you are working on if you are here to read about this plug-in. One challenge often faced by the WordPress developers is to implement the custom templates in the default categories as well as registered custom post_type categories in one go like page template. On the plug-in .........
WP Post Type Template
The plugin is to let you choose template for any post of any type as you can choose for page. Thus, every single post of any post type can be loaded/rendered in custom template as you want.
You have to create template just like those you create for page. These template then will appear in dropdown b.........
