<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Themes cannot use Custom Post Types, but I have a valid use case that has nothing to do with content and everything to do with presentation, and need help with my thinking process on this issue.<br>
<br></div>I have had user requests to add a custom page/post templating feature. For example (very shortened): %title% %content% %featured-image%, and so on would be replaced in the user defined template with the respective content of a page/post. They don't want to learn PHP to add a new page template via a child theme. This seems like a reasonable feature, and is really quite easy to implement.<br>
<br></div>To me, the obvious way to implement the user's template definitions is via a Custom Post Type (register_post_type). This is clearly a presentation feature - but with the user having very fine control over that presentation.<br>
<br></div>If not a Custom Post Type to implement the template definition, what is another reasonable approach that gives all the nice built-in functinality of a custom post type? There must be some elegant solution other that a textbox?<br>
<br></div>Thanks in advance for any suggestions for a different way to implement user presentation templates.<br><br>--<br><br></div>Bruce Wampler<br><div><br><br><div><br><br></div></div></div>