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Add Page Template column to Manage Pages screen

Please can someone help me add an additional column to the Manage Pages screen. The column I would like to add would show which template had been applied to each page.

I have hunted for an answer online and cobbled together the below code - NOTE: the code obviously doesn't work, but hopefully gives an idea of what I am trying to achieve.

Thank you



function add_page_text_column($page_columns) {

  $page_columns['page_template'] = "Page template";

  return $page_columns;

}

add_action('manage_pages_columns', 'add_page_text_column');



function show_page_template_column($post){

  global $post;

  switch ($post) {

    case 'column-page-template':

	$page_template 	= get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true); // file name		

	$result = array_search($page_template, get_page_templates()); // get template nice name

	echo $result;

      break;

    default:

      break;

   }  

}

add_action('manage_pages_custom_column','show_page_template_column');

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designbuildtest | 06/17/12 at 10:12pm Edit


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  • avatar
    Last edited:
    06/17/12
    10:17pm
    Navjot Singh says:

    There is a plugin to do the job already. Here it is: Reveal Page Templates

    • 06/17/12 10:52pm

      designbuildtest says:

      Thanks Navjot. This plugin looks good, but I was hoping for a simple function to put in my functions.php file.

    • 06/17/12 10:54pm

      Navjot Singh says:

      Okay. Try this then?

      function add_page_text_column($page_columns) {
      
  $page_columns['page_template'] = "Page template";
      
  return $page_columns;
      
}
      

      
add_action('manage_pages_columns', 'add_page_text_column');
      

      
function show_page_template_column($column_name, $post_id){
      
if( $column_name == 'page_template' ) {
      
	$page_template 	= get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true); // file name		
      
	$templates = get_page_templates();
      
	$result = array_search($page_template, $templates); // get template nice name
      
if( !$result )
      
        	echo ''.__('default').'';
      
	echo $result;
      
}
      
}
      

      
add_action('manage_pages_custom_column','show_page_template_column',10,2);

    • 06/17/12 11:05pm

      designbuildtest says:

      Works great Navjot - thanks.
      Is there a way to easily set the width of the new Page template column? I have unset the author, comment and date columns and would like to right-align the Page template column with the right-hand edge of the screen.

    • 06/17/12 11:40pm

      Navjot Singh says:

      Try using .column-{name} class to set width of your custom column.

      .column-page_template { width:20%; }


      should work.

    • 06/17/12 11:53pm

      designbuildtest says:

      Works great. Thanks.

  • avatar
    Last edited:
    06/17/12
    10:25pm
    Romel Apuya says:

    try this


    
function add_page_text_column($page_columns) {
    

    
  $page_columns['page_template'] = "Page template";
    

    
  return $page_columns;
    

    
}
    

    
add_action('manage_pages_columns', 'add_page_text_column');
    

    

    

    
function show_page_template_column($post){
    

    
  global $post;
    

    
  switch ($post) {
    

    
    case 'column-page-template':
    

    
	$page_template 	= get_post_meta($post->ID, '_wp_page_template', true); // file name		
    

    
	$result = $page_template; // get template nice name
    
	var_dump($result);
    

    
	echo $result;
    

    
      break;
    

    
    default:
    

    
      break;
    

    
   }  
    

    
}
    

    
add_action('manage_pages_custom_column','show_page_template_column');

  • avatar
    Last edited:
    06/17/12
    10:33pm
    Arnav Joy says:

    try this


    
	function add_page_text_column($page_columns) {
    

    
  $page_columns['page_template'] = "Page template";
    

    
  return $page_columns;
    

    
}
    

    
add_action('manage_pages_columns', 'add_page_text_column');
    

    

    

    
function show_page_template_column($column_name, $post_id ){
    

    
  
    
  switch ($column_name) {
    

    
    case 'page_template':
    
	
    

    
   $page_template 	= get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true); // file name		
    

    
	$result = array_search($page_template, get_page_templates()); // get template nice name
    

    
	echo $result;
    

    
      break;
    

    
    default:
    

    
      break;
    

    
   }  
    

    
}
    

    
add_action('manage_pages_custom_column','show_page_template_column',10,2);

    Previous versions of this answer: 06/17/12 at 10:33pm

    • 06/17/12 10:49pm

      designbuildtest says:

      Works perfectly. Thanks Arnav. Please could you update your code so a default message is displayed if no page template has been defined. Thanks.

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