Creating a Default Page from a Template

  • lwynne

    (@lwynne)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I’m running WordPress multisite and would like each site to have a specific page (with pre-loaded content) generated from a page template, contact.php. Rather than go through each site and create this page, I would like it to be created automatically by the theme. I plan to add all the content in contact.php itself. I’m assuming there is a way I can do this with a theme hack but have no idea where to start.

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  • DesignLoud

    (@designloud)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    page.php is your themes default page template. You can go into the theme folder and overwrite/duplicate page.php to modify it to suite your needs.

    More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates

    Thread Starter lwynne

    (@lwynne)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I’m sorry if I was not clear, but this did not answer my question.

    I need a page, contact.php, to be generated automatically without the user generating the page. The page would then rest at example.com/contact/

    DesignLoud

    (@designloud)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    So to make sure I am understanding you clearly, you need a page template (contact.php) to automatically come packaged with your theme that has its own unique content so you do not have to manually go into each site and do the whole “Pages > Add New > Contact” and populate it with content, am I understanding you correctly?

    Thread Starter lwynne

    (@lwynne)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Correct, but this is all content I can just simply include in the template itself. I just need my page template (contact.php) to be accessible as a page at example.com/contact

    Thread Starter lwynne

    (@lwynne)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    …anybody?

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