WordPress Templates

Posted on 4 Jul , 2012 in Tip of the day | 0 comments

If you wan’t to get into WP development you should be familiar with a theme structure and the mandatory pages that make a theme.

If you do, you surely are aware of templates (which are not mandatory). The template files will allow you to display the pages on your site by using them as a base structure.

Once you create one template, it shows up into the page ediror in a dropdown list on the right. So you know you can use THAT template for THIS content.

It is easy to do. just create a new php page inside the folder of your theme. Open it and type the following inside.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Home Page with Blog
*/
get_header();
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>

Be aware not to put some blank between the “Template Name” and the” :” . I had some problems with that !

Now, if you go to add a page in your WordPress admin, you will see your new template appearing in the template dropdown list.

yeaaaah.