Can I create my own post template and use it to start new posts?
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Here’s a dumb question that’s probably already been answered, but I can’t figure out the right keywords to search for. Maybe someone can give me a link or answer the question.
I’m looking for a template to start new posts. It would be similar to editing or updating a text document and then saving it with a new name while still having the original version of that text document under its original name.
My blog posts (http://www.the-military-guide.com using WordPress.com) follow pretty much the same format. At the end of the post I have a few sentences of boilerplate and in the “Publish” block I schedule pretty much the same time and the same Twitter hashtags. It’s very simple, perhaps even boring.
What I’m doing now is writing the text of a post and then adding the boilerplate by copying/pasting a few sentences from an OpenOffice document. Then I schedule the post’s date/time in the Publish block, and copy/paste the Twitter hashtags over to the publicize section. Sure, it works fine. It’s not a big deal. I could stop sniveling and get on with the posting. I’m just curious and I’d hate to be overlooking an extant easy answer.
I could create a “draft post” with my desired boilerplate and formatting, but the next time I edited and scheduled it then I’d no longer have the “draft” post. I’d use an offline editor but I don’t think it’d format the “Publish” section.
What I’m looking for is a user-defined template or default post. I’d be able to click on “Add New Post”, select my preformatted post that I’ve already saved with some name like “Default post”, add my new content (including the new title), let WordPress save it under the new title (while leaving my old default post with its old name), and then finish formatting & scheduling it. Does that feature exist?
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I’m sorry but here at wordpress.com we cannot create post templates as we are all on the same multi-user blogging platform. That means all blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and we cannot access the files and edit templates or themes.
What you want ie. a “user-defined template for posts ” can only be done on a wordpress.ORG install. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
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One work around is to create the template in a draft post and then when you get ready to use that template, open that draft post, switch to the HTML tab, copy out everything, then start the new post and paste what you copied into the HTML tab on the new post. You can then switch back to the Visual tab and edit and write your post.
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No apologies necessary, Timethief, I’ve been very happy with WP.com so far and I’m not motivated enough to go the .org route. Yet. I’m glad to see that I’m not missing a button or a switch.
TSP, that’s the workaround I was fumbling for. Thank you!
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