FSE Template Assigner plugin (Lifetime license)

• You can assign FSE templates and headers and footers to pages, posts, custom posts, and archives with the FSE Template Assigner plugin.

You can create assignments that are fully conditional, based on:

• Taxonomy (such as category or tags)
• Excluding page or post IDs
• Excluding taxonomy by ID or slug
• Visible for logged-in or logged-out or both
• You can deactivate, duplicate, and delete every rule.

You can create copies of FSE templates, headers, and footers, ideal for editing and assigning to other posts.

• Just select a template, header, or footer
• Provide a new name.
• Provide a description
• Click on Create Copy.

• Download plugin
• Activate plugin
• Go to Admin
• Appearance
• FSE Template rules

The plugin FSE Template Assigner can make a copy (or several...) of any existing FSE template, header, and footer.

How to copy an FSE template:

• Go to Appearance, Settings, FSE Template Rules
• Click on the tab 'Copy FSE Template'.
• Choose the template you wish to copy.
• Provide a new name, and a description, and click on Create Copy. The success message on top even provides you with the link to edit the newly created template.

How to copy a header or footer:

• Go to Appearance, Settings, FSE Template Rules
• Click on the tab 'Headers and Footers.'
• Select the header or footer you wish to copy.
• Provide a new name and a description, and click on Create Copy. The success message on top even provides you with the link to edit the newly created template.

Setting up a rule is straightforward.

• In the WordPress admin, go to Appearance → FSE Template Rules, then create your first rule.
• You can delete any rule or duplicate it.
• Excluding posts is always by ID, not by title or slug.
• For taxonomy exclusions, choose a taxonomy (e.g. categories or tags), then a term—by ID or slug.
• Visibility defaults to everyone; you can limit rules to logged-in or logged-out users only. Note: If you are logged in as an administrator, logged-in vs logged-out visibility may not behave as on the front end for your account; otherwise, you could lock yourself out of seeing your content.
• Save when done.

You can assign headers and footers dynamically; they are not really replaced but rendered with any header or footer of your choice! The functionality for assigning headers and footers depends entirely on the core functionality of WordPress. Most FSE themes follow these guidelines and are well-coded, but there are exceptions.

• In the WordPress admin, go to Appearance → FSE Template Rules → tab Headers and Footers, then create your first rule.
• You can delete any rule or duplicate it.
• Excluding posts is always by ID, not by title or slug.
• For taxonomy exclusions, choose a taxonomy (e.g. categories or tags), then a term—by ID or slug.
• Visibility defaults to everyone; you can limit rules to logged-in or logged-out users only. Note: If you are logged in as an administrator, logged-in vs logged-out visibility may not behave as on the front end for your account; otherwise, you could lock yourself out of seeing your content.
• Save when done.

• After you save, the single-post template stored on each affected post is updated.
• If rules conflict, the first matching rule by priority (top to bottom) wins. When you edit one of those posts, the assigned template name appears there, and you can open it from the editor.
• Assignments for the home page, archives, and taxonomy-based rules are dynamic: they are saved as rules, not written into each post’s template field in the same way.

If you want to restore the default template in a single post (page, post, product, or custom), and you were to remove the FSE template rule you had previously set, that post would not have the default template back. That is because the plugin actually set it in the database.

How do you restore it? There are 2 ways to do this (they are equally good):

1. Open the relevant post or page in Editing mode, click on template, and choose 'Set default template'.
2. Adjust the FSE template rule by selecting the default template and clicking Save. And the default template is set again for that post(s).

Examples:

• Assigning different templates to the same post ID.
• Assigning a template to a certain category and another template with a certain tag, don’t assign that category and tag to the same post; the post can’t show 2 templates at the same time.
• If conflicting rules occur, only one template applies; conflict is resolved by rule order. The priority works from top to bottom. You can also make practical use of this priority: you assign a template to several posts, and one rule lower, you assign a different template to the same posts; the top one rules. If you want to apply the other rule (temporary discount week, Black Friday), you move it up.
• You assigned a FSE template to a post and assigned a header to that same post: the template assignment will be honored first, then the header assigned will override the header part only; no issue at all.

• Your templates and template parts are unchanged.
• Template choices already written to posts stay in the database.
• Category, tag, and other term-based template rules are dynamic and stop applying when the plugin is deactivated, so the theme’s defaults apply again.
• Header and footer assignment rules are also dynamic and stop applying after deactivation.

• While editing a post, if you click on the template name, you'll see a notice that the template is assigned by FSE Template Assigner, with a direct link to edit the assignment.
• This way you won't forget you assigned it with our plugin, and it gives you a direct link to edit the assignment settings.

Headers and Footers

• Copy any header and footer and provide a new name and description.
• Assign headers and footers to any post type, postID, category, tag, term, etc.
• Just exclusions.
• Visibility defaults to everyone; you can limit rules to logged-in or logged-out users only.
• Header and Footer rules are 100% dynamic and can be changed whenever you like, as often as you want.
• And yes, this new functionality is available for all users of the plugin.

When adding a header/footer rule based on page ID, the plugin allows every post type, including WooCommerce pages, account, shop, checkout.

User interface improved; header/footer rules take less space and are draggable now for priority.

Added info:

Overriding a header or footer requires that the current template part is detected as a valid header or footer.

The Add Rule and Save Header/Footer Rules buttons have been moved outside the last rule.

The Duplicate and Remove rule buttons have been moved up.