Apparently I'm not understanding custom page templates-help?

  • I’m working on this web site: https://www.paddibles.com
    Originally they didn’t want a blog page, just regular pages, so I took out the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from my template (using Framework). Today they decided they want a blog, so I want to make a custom template for just the blog page. I’m also using the Disable WPAutoP plugin so need to make a special div to give me the page width I want for the posts. SOOOoo, I made a custom page template called blogpost.php which is a copy of index.php with the extra div (.width800) and the get sidebar. I selected this page template for the blog page in Quick Edit, and yet its still using index.php for page layout. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong? I’ll also have to edit “single.php” to match formatting.

    https://padibbles.com/blog

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  • Try setting your blog page in Dashboard/Settings/Reading

    Thread Starter DebT

    (@debbiet)

    It is set there.

    In Administration > Settings > Reading it says

    Posts page – Select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your Posts. If you do not select a Page here, your Posts will only be accessible via other navigation features such as category, calendar, or archive links. Even if the selected Page is Password protected, visitors will NOT be prompted for a password when viewing the Posts Page. Also, any Template assigned the Page will be ignored and the theme’s index.php (or home.php if it exists) will control the display of the posts.

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