Technically speaking, you could do it. However, it would be awkward.
In FIRSTwiki (www.firstwiki.org), each of the teams have a page (eg, [[FIRSTwiki:1]][[FIRSTwiki:1238]] [[FIRSTwiki:1227]]). Most of the pages are the same, but a few early ones don't. We could use a template to handle this, but it would be difficult to manage and edit. (I suggested using one for the table, since that is a better canidate).
So, basically, yes you could, but you may not want to.
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:06 -0700, Craig Hartel craig@nuclearmoose.com wrote:
Hello, all.
I have a question about templates. I understand that they are excellent for building things that one might wish to repeat on many pages, so having the template saves a lot of extra work. Not only that, if you need to update the content, you need only update the template, and the changes show up everywhere. That part I get, but here is what I'm wondering:
If I had a page structure that I wanted people to use, would that be appropriately done with a template? For example, if I had a few sections, like "Description", "Requirements", "Download" etc., would it make sense to build a template with those pre-built as section headings? Could I then create custom stubs and include them in the template? The custom stub would be like "Add the product description here, blah, blah, blah."
I have this in mind because there will be a lot of pages that we want to look exactly alike, save for the actual content. How could I set this up so that they use the template to start a new page from scratch?
Hmm...lots of questions in this one. Thank you in advance for your assistance in clarifying my understanding of templates.
Craig Hartel http://codex.wordpress.org/
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