Conditionnal tags are very useful when you need to know if you’re on a post, page, homepage, etc. But how to know if you’re are on a specific page template? Nothing hard, just use the following recipe.
Paste the following on your functions.php file:
function is_pagetemplate_active($pagetemplate = '') {
global $wpdb;
$sql = "select meta_key from $wpdb->postmeta where meta_key like '_wp_page_template' and meta_value like '" . $pagetemplate . "'";
$result = $wpdb->query($sql);
if ($result) {
return TRUE;
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}
Once done, you can call the function like this:
if (is_pagetemplate_active("Archives")) {
// The "Archives" page template is active
} else {
// The "Archives" page template is NOT active
}
Credits goes to Wupper Piraten for this cool recipe!
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5 Responses
Nice tips
I think the code will be more tidy if we uppercase the SQL keyword.
$sql = “SELECT meta_key FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key LIKE ‘_wp_page_template’ AND meta_value LIKE ‘” . $pagetemplate . “‘”;
Doesn’t :
is_page_template(‘templatename.php’)
Provide this functionality already?
Ref:http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page_template
I agree with Thomas Carter. This functionality is already built into WordPress, with is_page_template(‘template.php’);
With is_page_template() you have to know the name of the template page. What if you want to evaluate whether or not a page is using any template? Is there a way to do that? Something like has_page_template() ?
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