I want to create a page in word press website, that shows information from external DB by API. What should I do?
But other pages and theme are in the Wordpress database.
Thanks in Advance
Set up a custom template. It can contain all the custom code you need, such as the API to call the external database. You create a new template by copying and modifying the page.php file from your theme. Just remove the parts you don't want and at the top put your new template name in a comment line like this:
/* Template Name: External-DB-Page */
Save that to a file such as external_db.php, upload it to your theme or child theme directory and then in your functions.php you include the file by adding
require_once 'external_db.php';
This new template called "External-DB-Page" will now be a selection available when choosing a page template for any page in WordPress.
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I have a Wordpress website, now i want to change the post template name how it displays in the Wordpress CMS. Now it's saying "Standard template", i want to rename this to "News", just for usability reasons.
I can't find a way to do this. I know you can create new post templates by creating new files, but it always takes the single.php as standard template. I'm also using a child-theme, so i dont want to delete the single.php file, just rename the text: "Standard template".
Thanks in advance.
I tried creating a new post template file with a custom title. This doesnt solve problem, as the single.php file will still be the standard one (i dont want the user to have to change the template).
You can use another single.php for another post type for example if you have news registered as a post type you could have a single-news.php and that file then would server all the single views of postype = news. But from what i understand you would like to create a template appearing to the user with a different name. For that the best practice is to create a directory inside your child theme and name it page-teplates. Inside this directory you can create as many different templates you want and wordpress will recognize them but adding the following code at the top of each template. For the sake of the example lets say i want to create a contact page template. I will create a contact.php file inside the directory page-templates and have these lines of code inside.
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Contact
**/
get_header();
/* My templates Code/Design Here */
get_footer();
The possibilities are endless.
The code in this post will generate a dropdown box similar to the one that you see in pages.
All it requires is a little editing of your child themes functions.php file .
In most cases, you just need to copy your single.php file to a new file name in your child theme and edit the functions.php file in your child theme. Name your templates as seen in the code Dimitrios posted.
consider using the premium elementor page builder to create custom post templates that you can apply at will.
Try a plugin like Post Custom Templates Lite
I want to ask that can I create a file with my favorite name and use WordPress Codex in it ? How I can do that ? I want to load posts of a unique category in it ...
Note: I don't want to create a Page from WP Dashboard.
Thanks !
It will be better to create a page template and write the code for displaying post from category. Then assign your template to any of the Page in Wordpress Dashboard.
Look at the Wordpress Template Hierarchy
To load posts of a unique category (e.g. movie_cat) you can create a file named category-movie_cat.php.
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If you want to create a new php file which will work with your WordPress install, create your new file and copy/paste this piece of code, name this file like you want:
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require ('wp-blog-header.php');
Correct the path for wp-blog-header.php according to where your new file is placed (in this example, the file is at the same level of wp-blog-header.php).
Add your special script to this page and you're done !
Note that this method is a way to display your content in another way than the activated theme. If you want to add function in your plugin or theme, you only need to include it in your functions.php or main plugin file to use WordPress functions, db...
Hope it helps
In the wordpress admin dashboard, on the pages tab, when you edit the page, there's a section called "Page Attributes". One of the options is "Templates", which opens a drop-down list of templates available.
Is it actually possible to find which template name corresponds to which file in the theme editor without looking through every single file in the theme editor?
Shortest way to achieve this is, if you want to get the file name then you can add in the template name directly
<?php /* Template Name: Example Template (example_template.php) */ ?>
So you will see the Example Template (example_template.php) in template dropdown
I've just created a website using wordpress and a custom theme for it. This is my theme directory
/themes/customtheme/
-index.php
-header.php
-footer.php
-blog.php
....
The index.php includes header,footer,information to shown on my website, and a link to my blog page.
Blog file will looks same as normal blog site.
May i know how to write a hyperlink(a href) in index.php under theme directory so that it can prompt to the blog.php when click?
If I understand well your question you need to create a new page template using your blog.php file. Just add the following code at the beginning of the file:
<?php
/*
Template Name: My Blog Page
*/
And then create in the backed a new page and associate it to the newly created template.
Read more about page templates here.
I'm trying my make my first theme for wordpress.
Is there any possibility to create custom php page to display custom content?
Pretty much adding to WordPress another copy of the likes of single.php, post.php or 404.php.
All I want just a page to display the custom content on it.
Every tutorial I found so far uses just creating new page within WordPress.
I want to avoid it and for custom page to be enabled straight after theme activation.
The Idea is to have something like my_custom_page.php and to be able link to it after.
Is there any way of doing it?
Thanks
here is the solution to what I was looking for
http://kovshenin.com/2014/static-templates/
To achieve custom page functionality you can use page template concept of wordpress. Creating a page template is extremely easy. Create any new file in your theme and start the file with a comment block like so:
<?php
/*
Template Name: My Awesome Custom Page
*/
<h1>Hello There</h1>
You need paste php code inside this template file. When you submit for then redirection action will be page with custom template page.
Referance :
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/creating-custom-page-templates-in-wordpress/
Video :
https://youtu.be/1ZdHI8HuboA