If your WordPress website has hundreds of pages and your theme has many page templates then sometimes you want to see the pages those are using a specific template. But by default there is no way in WordPress admin to search posts or pages associate with a template. "
Filter Page by Template" plugin helps you to do this. It adds a dropdown list of page template above the post/page list. You can filter posts/pages by selecting a template from the dropdown. Also you can filter and see pages those are using missing templates. There is a new column
Template
in page list table. This
Template
column shows the name of
page template
that is being used for a particular page. If a template file is not exist then that will be shown in red color. On
Template
column you will see the template's display name. To see the php file name mouse over on the template name.
Using this plugin you can do :
- Filter page list according to page template.
- See which page is using which template.
- See which page template is being used by which pages.
- See which pages are using missing templates.
- Know the PHP file name of templates.
- You can do the same things above for posts and any custom post type posts.
Modern Way:
- Go to the WordPress Dashboard "Plugin" section.
- Search For "Filter Page by Template".
- Install, then Activate it.
Old Way:
- Upload the
filter-page-by-template
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
How To Use Filter Page by Template:
Just Install and activate. Go to all pages list page, Select a template from the dropdown and click on filter button.