[theme-reviewers] Alternative to Custom Post Type for Theme Feature

[Weaver Theme]

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.

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.

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.

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?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions for a different way to implement user
presentation templates.

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Bruce Wampler
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