Title: child’s template differ from parent’s?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# child’s template differ from parent’s?

 *  [Nomad-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomad-y/)
 * (@nomad-y)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-template-question/)
 * Hi-all, I am new at this and this question strikes me as fairly basic but I feel
   like I am banging my head against a wall.
    I am trying to use wordpress to design
   a simple site with 6 different pages. I want the headers and the footers and 
   the sidebars and all that jazz to be the same but the main contents to vary in
   design (a blog, an album, a simple text field…) Is there a way to change the 
   code for the main body of child pages to differ from the parent and siblings?
   So far I have gotten around the problem by creating each page as a parent but
   duplicating changes 6 times is making me crazy.
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 *  Thread Starter [Nomad-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomad-y/)
 * (@nomad-y)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-template-question/#post-1099459)
 * It seems I spoke too soon.
    Anyone with the same question check out [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates)

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