Page Templates

Page templates are special templates, which are selectable from the ‘Page Template’ dropdown in the page editor by an author.

You’ll typically use page templates for things like a homepage, or any page which has a special layout or purpose.

To create a page template, create a new view in the ‘views’ folder. You can call the template anything you like, but it’s recommended that it start with template-, or be in a templates subfolder.

It should export a view created with the defineView function, and must also define a meta: ViewMeta constant, with the templateName property set.

views/template-special-page.tsx


import { defineView } from "eddev/views"
 
export const meta: ViewMeta = {
  templateName: "Special Page"
}
 
export default defineView("template-special-page", () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Special Template!</h1>
    </div>
  )
})

Other Post Types

By default, providing a templateName metadata value will mark the view as a page template, available on ‘Page’ posts only.

You can optionally also specify one or more post types:


export const meta: ViewMeta = {
  templateName: "Editorial",
  postType: ['article']
}