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1. theoscrib
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi guys, for my blog I created my own template and I want to stuff it up with goodies like scriptaculous or dojo (haven't choosen yet). I want to show the content of a page only. So no html, no head, no body and no side bar etc. just the content. How can I get the content of a page. I don't know anything about PHP.

2. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you really want just the content of a page (in the WordPress sense of "page"), then create a page.php template file in your theme's directory with the following content:

   <?php
   the_content();

   Yep, that's it.

3. theoscrib
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have read that tutorial. But the problem is that in wp 2.7 I don't see how I can assign a template to a particular page.

4. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you want to assign this template to a particular page, then you need to amend it as so:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Pure Content
   */
   the_content();

   and choose "Pure Content" under Attributes > Template when editing a page.

5. theoscrib
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes it worked. Thank you so much for your help. I copied the page.php. Gave it a new name and removed the html wrapper. It looks like:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Page only no html
   */
    ?>
   
    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   		<h1 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
   
   		<?php the_content("__('[...]')
   "); ?>
   
   	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

   If you add a template wordpress sees that you have multiple templates and you can pick one from a drop down list. Isn't wordpress just amazing?

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