Devin Price

Try this plugin: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/

You’d just need to create one page template and you can apply it all those pages.

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

If the sidebar content is going to be the same, you’d just need to register one additional widget area, and call that from you page template.

I’d say that’s the simplist way to do it.

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If you want to try another more advanced route, you could use custom post types:

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Custom_Post_Types

To do that, you would add something like this to your functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );

function create_post_type() {
  register_post_type( 'bios,
    array(
      'labels' => array(
        'name' => __( 'Bios' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'Bios' )
      ),
      'public' => true
    )
  );
}

Then you could create a template called single-bios.php that it would use.

The downfall is that there is no multiple template yet (to display all your bios on one page). But that should be out shortly in WordPress 3.1, and then you would just need to create a template called: archive-bios.php.

This might be a more interesting route if you needed add extra metaboxes for data about each person who has a bio, or use additional taxonomies.

If any of that is confusing, just go back up to option 1. 🙂

I have a theme in the repo that handles all this:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/themes/portfolio-theme

I basically used Jake Goldman’s plugin as a drop in:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/simple-custom-post-type-archives/

This is not exactly what you asked for, but could be solution for someone. It sets up metabox items with a date prepopulated, much like how the “publish date” works.

Callback:

// Add the Events Meta Boxes

function add_events_metaboxes() {
	add_meta_box('wpt_events_date', 'Event Date', 'wpt_events_date', 'events', 'side', 'default');
}

Build the metabox:

// The Event Date Metabox

function wpt_events_date() {
	global $post, $wp_locale;

	// Use nonce for verification ... ONLY USE ONCE!
	echo '<input type="hidden" name="ac_noncename" id="ac_noncename" value="' .
	wp_create_nonce( plugin_basename(__FILE__) ) . '" />';

	$time_adj = current_time('timestamp');

	$month = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_month', true);

	if ( empty($month) ) {
		$month = gmdate( 'm', $time_adj );
	}

	$day = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_day', true);

	if ( empty($day) ) {
		$day = gmdate( 'd', $time_adj );
	}

	$year = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_year', true);

	if ( empty($year) ) {
		$year = gmdate( 'Y', $time_adj );
	}

	$hour = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_hour', true);

	if ( empty($hour) ) {
		$hour = gmdate( 'H', $time_adj );
	}

	$min = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_minute', true);

	if ( empty($min) ) {
		$min = '00';
	}

	$month_s = "<select name=\"_month\">\n";
	for ( $i = 1; $i < 13; $i = $i +1 ) {
		$month_s .= "\t\t\t" . '<option value="' . zeroise($i, 2) . '"';
		if ( $i == $month )
			$month_s .= ' selected="selected"';
		$month_s .= '>' . $wp_locale->get_month_abbrev( $wp_locale->get_month( $i ) ) . "</option>\n";
	}
	$month_s .= '</select>';

	echo $month_s;

	echo '<input type="text" name="_day" value="' . $day  . '" size="2" maxlength="2" />';
	echo '<input type="text" name="_year" value="' . $year . '" size="4" maxlength="4" /> @ ';
	echo '<input type="text" name="_hour" value="' . $hour . '" size="2" maxlength="2"/>:';
	echo '<input type="text" name="_minute" value="' . $min . '" size="2" maxlength="2" />';

}

Save the data:

// Save the Metabox Data

function wpt_save_events_meta($post_id, $post) {

	// verify this came from the our screen and with proper authorization,
	// because save_post can be triggered at other times
	if ( !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['ac_noncename'], plugin_basename(__FILE__) )) {
	return $post->ID;
	}

	// Is the user allowed to edit the post or page?
	if ( 'page' == $_POST['post_type'] ) {
		if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ))
		return $post->ID;
	} else {
		if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ))
		return $post->ID;
	}

	// OK, we're authenticated: we need to find and save the data
	// We'll put it into an array to make it easier to loop though.

	$events_meta['_month'] = $_POST['_month'];
	$events_meta['_day'] = $_POST['_day'];
	$events_meta['_year'] = $_POST['_year'];
	$events_meta['_hour'] = $_POST['_hour'];
	$events_meta['_minute'] = $_POST['_minute'];

	$events_meta['_location'] = $_POST['_location'];

	// Add values of $events_meta as custom fields

	foreach ($events_meta as $key => $value) { // Cycle through the $events_meta array!
		if( $post->post_type == 'revision' ) return; // Don't store custom data twice
		$value = implode(',', (array)$value); // If $value is an array, make it a CSV (unlikely)
		if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, FALSE)) { // If the custom field already has a value
			update_post_meta($post->ID, $key, $value);
		} else { // If the custom field doesn't have a value
			add_post_meta($post->ID, $key, $value);
		}
		if(!$value) delete_post_meta($post->ID, $key); // Delete if blank
	}

}

add_action('save_post', 'wpt_save_events_meta', 1, 2); // save the custom fields

The data should be checked a bit further to make sure each item is an integer, etc- but this works for now.

Check out this code MFields wrote: http://wordpress.mfields.org/2010/custom-content-type-add-theme-redirect/

There’s also a plugin: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/simple-custom-post-type-archives/

That’s exactly correct.

Try switching between the default theme and the sliding doors theme. You’ll see that the appearance of your site is different, but the content you wrote is still there.