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

[Jose Castaneda]

It sounds more like post meta than post type for me. Do keep in mind that's thinking on my break. ;) will have to ponder this a little more once I'm off @4am

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> On Jun 21, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Weaver Theme <weavertheme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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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