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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pages, custom templates, and sub navigation

Now we'll move from the posts to pages. If we visit the About page, you can see that it's formatted just like a post, which is definitely not what we want.

We just want the pages to have the title, we don't want metadata, Read More, and stuff like that. So to change all that, we have to create a new file and save it as page.php.

Now if I go back to that page and reload, it's just a blank white page. It's looking to this file to parse it.

Just to start with, I'll grab what we have in the index page, paste it in page.php, and just change some stuff. We want the while loop, we'll not use get_template_part(), so we can get rid of that. We want an <article> tag, and let's give this a class of page. Let's also put in an <h2> tag. This is where the title will go, so we'll say &lt...

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