Custom post template?

So this is how I got along while migrating a wordpress site with several custom post types to Astra w. Gutenberg.
Finally using hooks is the way I had to go, but I did not want to mess up my functions.php with tons of HTML-markup and a bunch of logic my cpts deal with. So I put the hooks and logic into template files.

I created 3 files for a cpt named “mycpt” in my child theme’s folder – you might not neeed all 3 of them:

• single-mycpt.php as a copy of single.php
• template-parts/content-mycpt.php as a copy of template-parts/content.php
• template-parts/single/single-mycpt-layout.php as a copy of template-parts/single/single-layout.php

single-mycpt.php will be used automatically for mycpt, as has been confirmed by other developers above.

Inside single-mycpt.php I add the following code to invoke the template parts (i.e. next line after get_header(); ):

/* define template for single custom post type mycpt */
remove_action( 'astra_template_parts_content', array( Astra_Loop::get_instance(), 'template_parts_post' ) );
add_action( 'astra_template_parts_content', 'content_mycpt_single_template' );

function content_mycpt_single_template() {
    get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'mycpt' );
}

/* define template for content loop custom post type mycpt */
remove_action( 'astra_entry_content_single', 'astra_entry_content_single_template' );
add_action( 'astra_entry_content_single', 'astra_entry_content_single_mycpt_template' );

function astra_entry_content_single_mycpt_template() {
    get_template_part( 'template-parts/single/single-mycpt-layout' );
}

Now I can customize the templates, add some logic, styling, deal with different post formats etc.
If possible I stick to using hooks i.e.
<?php add_action( 'astra_entry_content_after', 'mycpt_content_bottom' ); ?>
and place this code into one of my templates. So all of my customization for a cpt can be found in the 3 template files which seems to be a tidy solution to me.

This is for single view only, don’t know yet how to manage the archives.

Hi @blitzmr2,

Our content team is preparing and lining this up. Stay tuned.

Kind regards,
Herman πŸ™‚

Hi @lbell,

We’re sorry, our documentation team is quite busy with some other priority documentations. They already have this on their to-do list. Trust me! οΏ½?

Kind regards,
Herman πŸ™‚

Hi @twistedde,

This is still in the line of our documentation to-do list. You can always head over to our Knowledge Base and/or our Blog anytime to check whether we have published it or not.

Kind regards,
Herman πŸ™‚

@brainstormteam – Any updates on this?

Hello,

Any update on this? I’m in the process of removing Elementor from my site – I need to create a custom post template with Astra.

Regards,

Tango.

The last snippet from @vyshnav4u worked for me!

I think @brainstormteam isn’t too concerned about the customer. Perhaps we should look for another topic that pays more attention to its customers. Customizing the template is the basics, this should be made clear in any documentation