Confusion over creating Pages

  • I read the codex about Pages pretty thoroughly, however, I still have a couple questions.

    Can I create a page and just upload it? Like, I don’t want to create a page with that little create page button because it uses the default template. If so, how do I upload it and access it as a page?

    If I want to use another template, how do I do it. I know I create a page called “bob.php” and put that thing of code at the top saying <php blah blah /* template: bob */ <?php> something like that, but I don’t really want to add content through that little text/post box entry thing. Can i just make a page wholly outside of wordpress and upload it (much like you would for page.php or index.php)?

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

  • Yes, if you make a page template that doesn’t use the WP core (i.e., content stored in the DB), then you create your custom template with all the code and html you might want, create a new Page and select that template for it, leave the big content block blank, and when the template loads it shows what it shows (normal templates show the_content from the Page, your custom template can just spit out static html if you want…).

    -d

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • The topic ‘Confusion over creating Pages’ is closed to new replies.