Page Template Extended

Create templates for a specific page by its ID – like categories.
Subpages inherit templates from their parents.

Author:Thomas Blomberg Hansen (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.5
WordPress version tested:4.3
Plugin version:2.1
Added to WordPress repository:05-05-2008
Last updated:10-09-2015
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Create templates for a specific page by its ID. The reason I made this plugin, was to have subpages inherit their parent pages template. If the subpage doesn't have a template assigned, the parent pages template will be used if it exists. It goes all the way up the hierarchy.

The plugin works with an infinite number of subpages. If lets say a subpage is 6 levels down. It will look at the first parent for the template, if it doesn't exist it will look one level up at the next parent. So you can assign a template for the first level and fifth level. If you do so, level 1-4 would have the same page template and 5-6 a different page template.

If a template is assigned through the page edit screen, it will overwrite this.