Attempt to use the wordpress P2 Theme as a Page Template with a Custom Post Type

This is a work in progress. You can see it working at http://www.humbug.in/mblog/ (its NOT a demo page).

Check out the source code using the below command into your theme directory

cd THEME_DIRECTORY svn checkout http://p2-theme-page-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ p2

Add require_once( BIRDBRAIN_DIR . '/p2/p2-bridge.php' ); at the bottom of your theme's function.php

Open up the p2-bridge.php file and edit the following variables according to your blog settings

$p2_custom_post_type = 'aside'; //Custom Post Type Identifier $p2_custom_post_type_name = 'Asides'; //Custom Post Type Plural Name $p2_custom_post_type_singular_name = 'Aside'; //Custom Post Type Singular Name $p2_custom_post_type_page_slug = 'mblog'; //Page Slug where you want to display the P2 Blog

p2-blog.php - That is the page template being used on the blog right now, can be used as a sample to create your own.

aside.php - This is the custom post type template, i'm using the custom post type 'aside' and hence the template name is 'aside.php'. NOTE: Template naming rules are different for other themes, by default wordpress expects something like single-aside.php, however theme hybrid expects aside.php.

p2/style.css - Style Template used for the P2 blog specifically in addition to the theme's style.css

The Theme Directory Structure looks like

style.css functions.php aside.php p2-blog.php OTHER THEME FILES p2/ p2/p2-bridge.php p2/functions.php p2/style.css p2/entry.php p2/js/p2.js p2/OTHER P2 FILES

Also the files listed above the some of the important files that you might need to edit to get it work with your blog.