sacredpath
(@sacredpath)
Automattic Happiness Engineer
Hi there, you can create and style your own page template in your child theme. It might be best to start with one of the existing page templates and then modify and rename that template file using your own unique name, and then create the necessary CSS using your own CSS classes and IDs to make it look the way you want it. See here for more on Page Templates.
If you have not yet done so, I would suggest creating a child theme so that any customizations you make will not be overwritten by a future theme update.
Child Themes
Child Theme creation plugins
Alternately, you could do this in CSS by preceding the CSS selectors with the unique page body class for the page you are working on, if there is only one or two pages. If there are more than that, the child theme and new page template route would likely be less work and you could use the template over and over by simply selecting it from the Page Template pulldown in the page editor.
Thread Starter
secilk
(@secilk)
Thanks sacredpath, and apologies for not writing sooner. Because I only need one more page template, I was thinking I’ll go the CSS route rather than child theme. But maybe child theme creation is simpler than I thought. Thanks for the links.
Child themes are amazing and really not complicated to set up. 🙂
Here are a couple more resources to add to what Richard already gave you:
http://op111.net/53/
http://vimeo.com/39023468
http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#Custom_Page_Template
Good luck!
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secilk
(@secilk)
Thanks Kathryn. I will check out the resources you shared.