Wordpress post templates

[john4math]

Hi everyone!

What I need is a way in Wordpress for the author to select a category for their post, and then have a template come up with some fields in addition to just the large field where you write your post, where the author can add some additional information.  Then on the final post, have that information added to the top in some format that I (as the admin) can control.

What I'm doing is setting up an internal company blog so our employees can have more visibility across teams.  Some categories of posts will always include the same information, like release numbers, conference attendance, yes/no conclusions, among other information.

If there's a plug-in for this, free or not, that would be great!  If you can't tell I'm a Wordpress noob... so please bear with me.

[Thos003]

Great concept. Never thought of trying this through Wordpress. I have a  few set site templates that I teach beginners how to use. Makes the layout consistent and the content clean. But again, never tried this with wordpress.But I have found that Yola works well for this.

[john4math]

Thanks for the quick Reply Dan!  I'll check those out.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi John

Some themes have that functionality, so check there first.

If not, I think this custom post plugin should do it.

This one is a simple post template, but don't think it does more than one.

Hope that does it

-Dan