A post type template is one of the most valuable features added in recent versions of WordPress. This template allows us to design and style different posts and custom post types with different templates. In Chapter 2, Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features, we discussed page templates and their importance. This is a similar feature for posts instead of pages.

In our forum application, we have a custom post type called topics. In order to display topics on the frontend, we need a template different from the normal post template. So the earlier versions of WordPress allowed us to use the single-{post_type}.php file of the theme to design custom post types differently from normal posts. However, this technique only allows us to display all our topics with the same design. Assume that we want to display normal topics with one design and sticky topics with another...