Help with setting up pages correctly on a custom site

Hi there!

I need some help setting up a custom webpage for a client.

I’ve coded the site from html/css and then successfully transferred to WP.

What I want to set up is to make it so that when the client selects the different pages, that they can just go ahead a use the visual editor to make their changes.

What I need help with, is how to make WordPress do something like:

– If user is on a page called ‘about’, display content from page-about.php

… Or something like that.

Currently, the way I have it set up is that I’m using a page.php template which calls to a content-page.php template which displays the content on the particular page. It works, but because some of the styling for those pages is html-specific, I’m trying to get other page templates to hide the html from the user and make it easier for the client to just plop some information in using the visual editor.

I’m pretty new to custom coding, to be honest, I’m not even sure that I’m doing this the right way. I don’t have a strong enough understanding of how the pages work for a website transferred to WP from scratch.

Please help!

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