If I put a file up in my theme folder named foo.php that only contains <h1>Foo</h2>, WordPress will automatically pull in the home.php file.
Is there any function to prevent that and have it simply render the file foo.php. I'll still want to be able to use the wordpress functions from that page.
Thanks!
<?php
/*
Template Name: Foo
*/
?>
<h2>Foo</h2>
Saved (obviously) as 'foo.php'.
Then, when you publish a page, through the dashboard using the 'Foo' template, that template will be used.
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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.
In my wordpress I have a folder name custom which is a custom script. I visit myexample.com/custom the script does work. But I wish to use myexample.com for the script instead of myexample.com/custom. I want to replace the custom script rather than displaying the default homepage of wordpress.
Just add template comments in top of you main file under the custom folder.
<?php /* Template Name: Example Template */ ?>
How to create page template: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-page-in-wordpress/
Create a new page select this page template from page template dropdown and set this page as home page.
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 want to create a website using wordpress, but I want my website to have a customized home page, created by me, completely different from the theme of the site, and then link the wordpress pages directly from my page.
Is this possible? How can I achieve this?
Can I simply create the page, and link the other created with the wordpress panel, without breaking everything?
According to official WordPress codex:
If a visitor goes to your home page at http://example.com/blog/, the following happens:
WordPress first determines whether it has a static front page. If a static front page has been set, then WordPress loads that page according to the page template hierarchy.
If a static front page has not been set, then WordPress looks for a template file called home.php and uses it to generate the requested page.
If home.php is missing, WordPress looks for a file called index.php in the active theme's directory, and uses that template to generate the page.
Therefore you just need to create a home.php template and place it with the other theme (which so ever theme you will use) templates and WordPress will automatically start using home.php template for the home page.
Just copy the default page.php template file and call it front-page.php. Change the configuration at the top of that file. Now create a new page called home.
Go to Administration > Settings > Reading panel and set a static front page.
For more help check this link on the Wordpress website:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
If you create HTML off your home page first than this is easy for you
First Create a file Like this "template-home.php" in your theme.
Now in "template-home.php" First you must write these lines at the top of the page
<?php
/* ==========
Template Name: Home
========== */
?>
After that add your header.php and footer.php like this:
<?php get_header(); ?>
// Your Content is here
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Now your Whole HTML is work between in Header and Footer
Then Go to your Admin Panel
Go to Pages > add new
and create a page named "Home"
NOTE: When you create a page Please Select a Template of Home and "Publish" it.
Then go to Settings > Reading and select "A static page (select below)" radio button, then a drop down is active and select your "Home" Page Then click on save changes.
I hope this will help you
You can create a front-page.php file in your active theme folder.
It can be use for both Your latest posts or a static page as you want.
Wordpress themes have standard file such as header.php, footer.php, index.php, functions.php, style.css, ...
How to add a php file to wordpress theme addition of standard files? for example I want add a news.php to display specific posts in it, please help me
Just add a new file (e.g. news.php), and put the template comment at the very beginning:
<?php
/*
Template Name: News Template
*/
Then, go to your Wordpress backend, create a new page, and select the template you created: