Bypass head.php and footer.php

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I’ve used the Roots theme on several WP projects to good effect, and have been able to generate custom templates pretty smoothly.

I’m now trying to set up a page that completely bypasses not only base.php but also head.php and footer.php. That is because it is for use as a Page that generates an Excel download (with its own HTTP Content Type, document headers, etc. )-- so none of the regular site markup is applicable.

I’ve tried setting up “base-excel.php” template, but I haven’t found guidance on how bypass the regular template wrapping. I suppose I can inject PHP inside head.php etc. – using get_page_template() to suppress all output when it detects my special Excel page template. But maybe there’s a more centralized way I can do it using the filter set up by Roots_Wrapping – as long as it lets me bypass ALL the templates components.

Anyone have any tips about this?

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if you created a “base-excel.php” did you also created the “excel.php” template file?

If you create an excel.php template file (copy the content from from template-custom.php), this file will look for base-excel.php to work as its wrapper. You can then, remove your head and footer from your base-excel.php wrapper.

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Yes, that worked. I had been using base-excel.php as both the base file and as the page template as well, which I see now was incorrect.

Thanks for the help!