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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Page Templates in WordPress The page.php File

Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points
Posted by Anthony c
Anthony c
20,907 Points

Does WordPress Know to Look for Page.php automatically?

I didn't notice that we initialized or signaled to wp that page.php would be our page template. Is core set up to look for a page.php from the get go?

1 Answer

Luke Towers
Luke Towers
18,572 Points
Luke Towers
Luke Towers
18,572 Points

You should look into the template hierarchy. There is a handy diagram that shows how WordPress decides which PHP file it will use to render the requested content.

template hierarchy diagram