Overwrite single-{custom}.php theme template

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Tagged: Content Templates, Content-submission forms, Toolset Forms, Views plugin

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Last updated by Jamal 3 years, 9 months ago.

Assisted by: Jamal.

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March 19, 2021 at 5:45 pm #1993755

donC-3

On talestavern.com, we have a custom post type created with Toolset : slabs.

Subscribers of the site can create those via a toolset template. When they're connected, or an administrator is connected, they can edit slabs, based on another content template. To add a "Edit" link in the template used for slabs, we add this url parameter at the end of the slab permalink :
?content-template-id=102

I'm working on my local on a new version of that single slab template. I'm coding it directly in the child theme now, so I have a file called single-slab.php. These Edit links now go to that same file instead of opening in the Toolset content template. Like if my file was overwriting the url parameter.

Is there a way to force render a post in a url-provided content template ?

March 20, 2021 at 8:51 am #1994239

Jamal

Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Make sure that your single-slab.php file uses the the_content function from WordPress https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_content/
Content templates replace the return of the_content template. Read more about it here https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/theme-support-for-content-templates/

Does it make sense? Otherwise, please share the single-slab.php file through a service such as pastebin.com, so I can check it further.