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Function Reference/get page template

Description

Retrieve path of page template in current or parent template.

First attempt is to look for the file in the '_wp_page_template' page meta data. The second attempt, if the first has a file and is not empty, is to look for 'page.php'.

Usage

<?php get_page_template() ?>

Parameters

None.

Return Values

(string): Returns path of page template in current or parent template.

Examples

Notes

Uses: get_post_meta()
Uses: validate_file()
Uses: apply_filters() on 'page_template' on result of locate_template().
Uses: locate_template()
Uses global: (object) $wp_query

Change Log

Since: 1.5.0

Source File

get_page_template() is located in wp-includes/theme.php.

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