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Sam Easterling
10,216 PointsPage templates for static pages?
If I had a small site with a few static pages I could: 1) Recreate the html pages as php pages and just make each page its on template. (ex) about.html would be page-about.php with a php block containing "Template Name: About Page. Select the About Page template as the About page's template.
2) Use a template with a php block containing "Template Name: Static Page. (ex) use a page.php template, select Static Page as the template and paste the html content into page's content area.
Is there a best practice or a better way?
4 Answers
Jaco Burger
20,807 PointsI see, okay, I suggest you do the Wordpress template hierarchy course, or have a look at this page: http://wphierarchy.com That page helps a lot.
You've got a couple of options - here a two. 1 - You can target a page specifically, either by targeting it's slug or id. So say the page's slug is about, you can create a template called page-about.php.
2 - You can create a template file called about.php, and when you create your page, select the about page as a template. Just be sure to have the following at the top of the template.
/* Template Name: Name of Template */
Jaco Burger
20,807 PointsWhy would you want to do that if the pages are static? Vanilla html is fine for that. Are you talking about a CMS/Wordpress, or just plain PHP for the heck of it?
Sam Easterling
10,216 PointsWordpress. Some of the pages have dynamic content.
Sam Easterling
10,216 PointsYeah, those are the two options I had in my original post. Just wondering if I was on the right track or if there was a better way.
Jaco Burger
20,807 PointsHaha, sorry my bad. Not that I know of, it depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it is page specific, then option 1 I'd say, otherwise if you're going to re use functionality, option 2.