Page Templates

[drmike]

Do you ever include page templates within your rollouted themes?  Just thinking about them again.

[Luke]

Yep. On any theme I roll out I include all the basic template. Even if they are the same.

Just in case I want to do something 'tricky' at some point down the road, and need that actual template file.

Really, it isn't much of a hassle. Most themes already have them, if not I just duplicate single.php, or whatever. Takes all of 30 seconds maybe, so compared to the rest of the time spent fixing themes before deploying it's a drop in the bucket.

[drmike]

Thanks.  What templates do you add in?

[Luke]

page, single, category, index, home, comment, etc.

The general fare.

[drmike]

Nah, I mean Page Templates, not files.

Like the template you did a few days ago for the next blog thread.

[Luke]

Oh.

In that case, nothing for the general user to play with, no.

I've kicked a couple ideas around in my head though.

I do use custom page templates pretty frequently for my own purposes, since I can do "anything" in them, but nothing that I pass along for a user to select in their theme (yet).

[Andrea_R]

If i was going to do something like that, I'd make a Contact, Links and nicer Archives page.