Page into Template/Parent Theme/Child theme

  • Resolved eagle2021

    (@eagle2021)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Good day. Marry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

    I finally designed a WordPress page which I want to be my foundational page, as in a MS Word Template. The header/icon and footer are set, and I want to be able to copy this page’s design and add appropriate content text and images (products for Product page, About info, etc.)

    I know “theme” and “template” sometimes are used interchangeably. There is also “parent” and “child” theme. For my question I am going to use the word “template” (as in Word’s Template.) How do I design a template from a page in Pages > All Pages, save it, and use it as described? Coding instructions, links, and plug-ins are all welcomed! ??

    Thank you,
    John

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  • You can’t really compare ms word to WordPress. WordPress has a series of templates that are used single,archive,page,404. etc. Depending on what being submitted wordpress will select the appropriate template. If you want to modify the existing theme you will need to create a child theme. Child theme allows you to overwrite or extend the original theme. You can’t import a MS Word theme and use it in WordPress. If you are new to wordpress it better to find someone who has experience using wordpress to explain everything. You could probably find some youtube videos to use as tutorials. Creating templates and themes in wordpress takes a great deal of time. It better you find a theme in the theme depository that you like and use it. Take some tutorials on wordpress. You really don’t need to learn theme development to use wordpress. If you want to customize wordpress more please look at some of the page creator plugins.

    Thread Starter eagle2021

    (@eagle2021)

    mrtom414,

    Thank you for the message & advice!

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