Title: Custom Multisite Theme: template usage
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom Multisite Theme: template usage

 *  [bman1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bman1/)
 * (@bman1)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-multisite-theme-template-usage/)
 * Can anyone tell me if I am using my template files correctly? My navigation is
   off and I can’t seem to do the kind of blog/page editing I need for each page
   of my website.
 * I have a custom, multisite WordPress site that will contain a total of 6 sites.
   The primary site is a collection relatively static pages. The subsequent 5 sites,
   located under the navigation link ‘[Our Thoughts](http://conceptualimprints.ca/wptww/beauty)‘
   are dedicated blog sites.
 * I am using my template files in the following way:
 * **index.php**
    This contains include code for header and footer. In between that,
   it includes conditional code that determines the `blog_id`. If the current `blog_id`
   is the primary site, homepage.php (custom template) is called. If it is any of
   the other blog_id’s, homepagenetwork.php (the second custom template) is called,
   specific for displaying a blog layout.
 * **Homepage**
    Contains hardcoded HTML – I would like to make this editable via
   a WordPress page.
 * **homepagenetwork.php**
    This contains the typical HTML container code, `the_content()`,‘
   comments_template()’ tag etc.
 * **header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php, comment-template.php**
    Typical coding
   here. Nothing special.
 * If anyone can recommend usage of the other common Worpdress templates, or perhaps
   different usage of the templates I am currently using, I’d much appreciate it.

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