Is this even possible?

  • dekraan

    (@dekraan)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hello there!

    I bought a theme that only displays a slider on the homepage if you use the static page configuration.

    I want this slider to appear, but I do not like the possibilities that the wordpress ‘page’ editing gives me (pages/edit page).

    Therefore I did this: I made a custom template like this:

    <?php /* Template Name: Homepage
    */ ?>

    and then copied everything in there from the default template file. So now, I have a duplicate page that is displaying the slider.

    Can I now start editing this custom template with html at appearance/editor to make it into a custom homepage, just like I would if I was just making a standard html-website without wordpress?

    I need this.. detour, because if I edit the default template file, everything else will also change.

    my question and the way I explained it shows that I am a real n00b, but I hope you understand!

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    as long as it has the correct header
    example

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Snarfer
*/
?>

    and is uploaded to the theme files in use – yes you can edit it as you would any other file in the editor

    Thread Starter dekraan

    (@dekraan)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you very much. I have now decided to use the page/edit page. Is it possible to copy all the html I am using in there now, and just paste in the code of my template-page later on?

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    that should work fine

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