Do you want to add a column to your admin pages showing the active WordPress page template? While you need to display additional information in your WordPress dashboard, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to add a custom column with currently active page template.
Instructions:
All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:
add_filter( 'manage_pages_columns', 'page_column_views' );
add_action( 'manage_pages_custom_column', 'page_custom_column_views', 5, 2 );
function page_column_views( $defaults )
{
$defaults['page-layout'] = __('Template');
return $defaults;
}
function page_custom_column_views( $column_name, $id )
{
if ( $column_name === 'page-layout' ) {
$set_template = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_wp_page_template', true );
if ( $set_template == 'default' ) {
echo 'Default';
}
$templates = get_page_templates();
ksort( $templates );
foreach ( array_keys( $templates ) as $template ) :
if ( $set_template == $templates[$template] ) echo $template;
endforeach;
}
}
Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly add code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.
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Very nice 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Excellent code! Exactly what I wanted to do and done with a simple copy and paste.
Glad it helped, Scott!
Thank you!
This works great, but I am really struggling with sorting the column. I managed to make the column sortable. eg. I can click on the column title, and it definitely does something, but I think it is just reversing the natural order upside down :(, and what I need is to sort alphabetically by the template name.