In reading about the custom post types functionality of 2.9, I can see that the days of needing a separate plugin to handle what ICE does are limited. I’m very ok with that! I started it to make the process of managing “WP as a CMS” easier and it sounds like within the next couple of releases that functionality may be available through the core of WordPress. I look forward to the day when implementing something like a rideshare board is as easy as Gravity Forms within the admin console and as shareable as plugins / themes are through WordPress.org extend.

After switching to wp 2.9 there seems to be a problem.

The drop down template selection is there but when the page refreshes after save the template is no longer selected.

Any help to fix this?
Thnx

If it is showing a [c] before it, that represents the one coming from your child theme directory. I just did a fresh test install of sandbox with a blank child theme and can have category templates display from the child theme without having the files in the parent. Some things to check / try.

• Ensure that your category prefix and post prefix in the menu settings > Idealien Cats match what your file names are.
• Have you created a category-4.php file in your child theme and used that to associate the category and template? Without defining the category template, ICE does not understand which post template (single-4.php) to try and use.
• Try using a different filename than single-4.php.
• Try creating a new child theme that replicates all of the file contents from your existing one (updating both the theme folder and styles.css theme name) and re-uploading that to your server. In a few debug cases I have had issues where entries were already stored in the database for category + theme that were causing my issue.

If those don’t solve your problem, contact me using the contact form on the main page and I might be able to help you more directly. Note that in that case I will require admin access to your wordpress install. One of the nice things about WP 2.8 is that I no longer require FTP access to debug theme / file issues.

so to get it to work i have had to duplicate my single-id.php file in both parent & child theme folders.

hope that makes sense!

If i have a single-4.php in both my theme and sandbox, it shows the one in sandbox (ie the parent one) with the letter c before it.

is there anything i can do to get it to work?
thanks
elvis