How to get Wordpress to use a specific page template depending on URL params?
Hey Experts!!
I have a Wordpress site that's using data from a Salesforce DB.
I have a plugin in WP that looks at the URL and runs a query based on what it finds.
What I need help with is to make WP use a specific page template depending on the URL.
For example:
If the URL contains artist:
Redirect to page-artist.php
Any help is much appreciated.
I have a Wordpress site that's using data from a Salesforce DB.
I have a plugin in WP that looks at the URL and runs a query based on what it finds.
What I need help with is to make WP use a specific page template depending on the URL.
For example:
If the URL contains artist:
Redirect to page-artist.php
Any help is much appreciated.
ASKER
I'm already doing a redirection once though. I need the page template to be transparent to the user, as it is in normal instances of Wordpress
I don't follow what you mean 'transparent to the user'... are you trying to hide the address of the page?
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BTW, I don't work with wordpress so if that was a stupid comment; let me know.
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ASKER
I think I've found what I'm looking for. Wordpress has the template_redirect hook, which I'm reading up on right now. Looks like it maybe what I need.
I don't want to change the URL, in fact I can't. I need the URL to remain normal. What I need to do is use a different page template depending on a variable in the URL.
I don't want to change the URL, in fact I can't. I need the URL to remain normal. What I need to do is use a different page template depending on a variable in the URL.
Okay I gotcha. Sorry I didn't help much.
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ASKER
No worries. Thanks for your help.
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ASKER
Hey Jason,
So my URL looks like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/artists/500/?artID=123
But artists isn't a category or a slug. It's not even in WP. It's coming from the Salesforce DB. So I have some PHP that grabs that and I can condition on that which is great. But I need to condition a page template when the URL looks like that.
So my URL looks like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/artists/500/?artID=123
But artists isn't a category or a slug. It's not even in WP. It's coming from the Salesforce DB. So I have some PHP that grabs that and I can condition on that which is great. But I need to condition a page template when the URL looks like that.
Right, so your base page.php file doesn't actually display any content. Instead, it does a series of checks to see what URL params are set (if any) and then calls the correct get_template_part() with parameters based on the tests.
So the flow would be something like:
if no parameters set then show normal-page.php template
if artID is set then test value of artID against SalesForce, return slug then set get_template_part()
So the flow would be something like:
if no parameters set then show normal-page.php template
if artID is set then test value of artID against SalesForce, return slug then set get_template_part()
ASKER
That sounds right.
So how would that look in PHP with the slugs?
get_template_part( $artist, "page-artist.php" );
???
So how would that look in PHP with the slugs?
get_template_part( $artist, "page-artist.php" );
???
ASKER
Thoughts??
Header( "Location: http://pages-artist.php" );
You need to send the header before anything else is sent back to the client.
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