Summary: WordPress is a really important piece of software for me. Probably for every online business creator. One of the reasons why it’s so popular is the fact that the platform is extremely easy to use, even for a non-tech-savvy person.Even though WordPress is great, some aspects of it can still be adjusted to give us the maximum of their potential. That’s the case with standard WordPress pages.In case you’re not that familiar with WordPress; there are two main types of content you can create in WordPress: posts and pages.Posts are the primary vehicles of blogging. Each entry is organized by date with the newest one at the top of the blog. Pages are more traditional elements. They are, well, pages. You can create them using the exact same interface but they have a different purpose.While posts are the content of your blog, pages are the meta-content. You’re creating posts whenever you have something new to share with your audience… new advice, insights, articles, etc. On the other side there are pages. The most common pages in blogosphere are “about” and “contact” – it’s where you provide some additional data about your blog and online business.There are gaps in pages’ armorPages have only one problem (unless you’re using a fancy theme) – they all look the same. So no matter what page you want to create it will look exactly the same as the previous one. For instance, I’m guessing that the only thing that separates your about page from your contact page is the content in the main area of the page. Apart from that, all the sidebars, headers, footers, styling and layout are exactly the same, right?This isn’t necessarily bad. You want your site to be consistent. To be predictable, so the user is not confused when browsing it. However, at some times you want to be able to create a slightly different page, for a special purpose.For example, there are 3 main kinds of pages on this blog:Standard pages, like my tools and resources page.Custom pages focusing on a given topic, like my starting an online business page.Email subscription pages, like my email updates page.These are all pages. I created them by going to the “Add New Page” section in my WordPress admin panel. What’s really different about them is that they all use a different page template.When I’m creating a new page I can choose from a number of available custom page templates. There’s a dropdown list near the Publish button for that purpose (image below).(Note. If you have no templates defined you won’t see that dropdown field, but we’ll take care of that in just a minute.)Custom page templates give you many possibilities. You can create whatever layout you like within them. You can ditch... You are listening to the topic about "WordPress Custom Page Template – How to Create It", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.
