Title: creating a generic page
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# creating a generic page

 *  [JProductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jproductions/)
 * (@jproductions)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-generic-page/)
 * Can someone point me in the right direction for creating a generic template that
   will be used for my store. My theme is Graphene and I am using the shopplugin
   for my store.
 * I dont want my store page to look like a blog/post layout. I would like to try
   and avoid the loop and just use something generic to fall into a generic div.
 * I hope i explained this well.
    Thanks, Brian

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-generic-page/#post-1975591)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates)
 *  Thread Starter [JProductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jproductions/)
 * (@jproductions)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-generic-page/#post-1975715)
 * From what I was able to accomplish so far I can make everything show up EXCEPT
   the content. I can get the title the sidebar and whatever else I have on the 
   page, but the actual content will not show up.
 * I tried using this code to make it show up:
    <?php the_content(); ?>
 * And that is not working. Is that the wrong code? If so can you tell me what the
   proper code is?
 * Thanks.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-generic-page/#post-1975716)
 * Does your new template include [the Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)?
 *  Thread Starter [JProductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jproductions/)
 * (@jproductions)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-generic-page/#post-1975721)
 * No I did not include the look, I dont see why I would need to if the only thing
   that would ever be processed on this page is the store Catalog.
 * Well…
    I did “kinf of” include the loop the only function I left out was the 
   first <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> function,
   but it still processed the title, date, addthis social networking box.
 * But… I did come to a work around by just including this:
    <?php shopp(‘catalog’,’
   catalog-products’); ?> Where this: <?php the_content(); ?> is supposed to go.
 * That fixed my issue, but I am having a problem with my sidebar displaying within
   the <div id=”content-main” class=”clearfix”> when it is supposed to be displaying
   just outside that <div> ironically I dont even have that <div id=”content-main”
   class=”clearfix”> in my php file.
 * If you would like to view what I have don’t so far, which isn’t much, and you
   can see the issues I am talking about you can check it out here:
    [http://motodude.com/wp/shop/](http://motodude.com/wp/shop/)(
   there is only one product uploaded and the image doesn’t display(http error) 
   Thanks!

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