I have a custom page template named "page-news.php" and it contains
<?php
/*
* Template Name: News
*/
get_header();
?>
test
<?php
wp_footer();
get_footer();
?>
and I then create a page and set the template to "News" but when I view the page, it does not display the contents on the page-news.php custom page template, instead it display the archive.php contents (I have test it, whatever I put unto the archive.php contents, it display on the page that I hook unto the page-news.php custom page template). Any ideas, help please? I'm running WP 4.7.2.
Please rename the file name i.e. from 'page-news.php' to 'news.php' or any other name but don't add 'page-' in the file name & then select the template again for the page in the admin backend.
Hope, this will help you.
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Unable to get my custom created page in page attributes Templates, rest all the pages are still shown in the dropdown but new created page is not listed. I have created a custom page in PHP and uploaded it in wp-content->themes->my-theme in the root directory.
Kindly assist, Thanks
Add at the beginning of your custom page:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Template name
*/
?>
The second template name will the name of your template
Make sure that your template file name is like page_{template-name} and not page-{template-name}.
Also add this at the beginning of the template.
<?php /* Template Name: Example Template */ ?>
Check this out for more details https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/
I have a working one page website I like to convert into multiple pages in wordpress.
I already successfully created a theme, converted the header, footer, css, js into wordpress, header.php, footer.php, and functions.php by following a tutorial.
Now I'm left with all my html content between the header and footer and want to cut that content up into multiple wordpress pages.
I can do "the_title(); wrapped in php" and make the content while loop to get the first page into a wordpress page, but from then I dont know what to do, to split the next lines of html into other wordpress pages.
You will need create some page templates for your theme. They will look something like this:
page-about.php
<?php
/* Template Name: About Page */
get_header(); ?>
... about page content
<?php get_footer(); ?>
page-contact.php
<?php
/* Template Name: Contact Page */
get_header(); ?>
... contact page content
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Then assign the template in the Wordpress admin, on Edit Page view to the corresponding templates you want to use. You select the template by the name you give it in the comments.
The actual file name of your templates matter. Some views in wordpress are assigned to templates simply by the name of the file. So you will want to use certain naming conventions like page-about.php. More info about templates: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/
I have experience in HMTL/PHP but I cannot understand how someone could implement this basic functionality in Wordpress. I could not find an article or web page on their website or by searching through the internet.
I want to create a basic html form, pass some data as select queries in a database and visualize back the results paginated.
In traditional PHP we are using "action" in order to send the form data through POST or GET to the action page and then with some PHP code we can fetch the data and visualize it with tables etc.
I cannot understand how to do such a thing in a wordpress page. Where the action parameter should point to? How could I implement this basic functionality in WordPress?
Please could someone help?
This is the mode to develop a separated .php file which uses your wordpress theme and can access to almost all wordpress functions:
<?php include(’wp-blog-header.php’); ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!– Your code here –>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Then you can use all WordPress functions cited here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference
You can save this file anywhere, but be sure to insert correct path to wp-blog-header and there must not be any prohibiting .htaccess
This is the way to insert php code into a wordpress post:
You have to use this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/
Then create a post and use [php] [/php] to insert your php code and open it. Look at the address bar. This it the URL to access this post. Use it as action parameter in your form. Then control $_REQUEST[] in your php code to extract parameters received from your form.
Now you can control this post as any other normal wordpress post from the wordpress admin panel.
You need to create custom wordpress templates for pages in your theme. Here i use templates
1.form-page.php --- with template name "Form-page-template" and
2.form-page-action.php ---with template name "Form-page-action-template"
form-page.php
<?php
/*
Template Name: Form-page-template
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<form method="post" action="http://yourdomain.com/form-page-action/" name="input-form"/>
<!-- form contents -->
</form>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
You just save this template inside your theme : location => like wp-contents/themes/your-theme/form-page.php . and this will add Form-page-template in your theme .Now create a page inside from wordpress dashboard through pages->addnew ,here i give page name "form-page" and select template for page from right pannel,here we need to select "Form-page-template" that we created early.
Now we have the page url :: http://yourdomain.com/form-page/ where we can see our form,now create form-action-page.
2.form-page-action.php
<?php
/*
Template Name: Form-page-action-template
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!-- Your action page contents goes here -->
<?php
//getting input etc.. you need to do
$input = $post['input'];
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Now you need to save this template inside your theme as above, Create a new page for this template as said above here i creating a page "form-page-action" with template "Form-page-action-template" so here i get a page url for our
action page like :: http://yourdomain.com/form-page-action/ , and you need to use this url as the action url in your form page.and this way you can add your form action page inside wordpress theme.
You can edit the contents of these page inside from wordpress like=> Appreance -> Editor , select the templates to edit.
I want to make php file "demo.php" in geany editor and then I want to add that page in my website.To do this task I have add "demo.php" in folder "wordpress/wp-content/themes/my_wesite_theme" ,after that my wordpress show that file as template "demo" , up to this its ok.
After that i want to add new page "new-page-of-site" in wordpress which take template of "demo" which is my php file template ,after selection of that template when i view "new-page-of-site" in browser it show only output of that page without wordpress theme ,so how can I include wordpress theme in that page.
This is a simple process and is very easy to do.
First of all, you need to name the template correctly. This just means adding the prefix page- before the name of the template. Like so:
page-demo.php
Next, you have to add a tiny bit of code to the top of the template page just so that WordPress will know what the template is called.
Open up the new page-demo.php that you have created, and add this code to the top:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Demo
*/
// names the template
get_header(); // gets the header detail
?>
<?php
if ( have_posts() ) {
while ( have_posts() ) {
the_post();
//
// Post Content here
//
} // end while
} // end if
?>
<?php
get_footer(); // gets the footer detail
?>
I've added some code for the actual page but you'll want to change it up to fit your actual page layout.
When you get into the WordPress admin area for adding new pages, on the right hand side below the save button, you should have an area for changing the template, just choose the new option, save and then you should be able to view the page with the new template.
I have page I want to display the page in different style (not as the content.php file ) so now I made copy the content.php file and just modified it. I want to display only for one page and other pages should display like content.php . So how can I change the index page to display the particular as new content-list page. My page name is News and it should be display like content-list.php.
For display indiviual page you have to make a Template for that page and from
Dashboard-->Pages open the page where you want to display that template, on right hand side you have seen TAMPLATE-->DEFAULT TEMPLATE, select template you have created...
Syntax for new template
<?php
/*Template Name:abc
*/
?>
<?php get_header();?>
<!--------------------------------------->
CONTENT FOR PAGE
<!--------------------------------------->
<?php get_Footer();?>
I don't know about which file you're referring to as content.php
I have page i want display the page in different style
So, if you want to display a page with a different style, you should have a look at WordPress Template Hierarchy.
You can create another page template, use custom files like header-{name}.php and footer-{name}.php and use get_header() and get_footer() with the appropriate arguments(the {name} you mentionned to call these files.