Title: Problems with custom template install
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems with custom template install

 *  [davey007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davey007/)
 * (@davey007)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/)
 * I have installed my own theme and put all my content for home page into index.
   php – i think this then stopped me changing content on other pages
 * I then took out main content from index.php and made a new page home but still
   doesn’t display
 * As I am trying to add all my static .html pages into wordpress but keeping a 
   similar file extension .php is this possible ??
 * Would be really grateful for some feedback

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 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/#post-2886284)
 * Hi there,
 * Not exactly clear where you’re at in the process.
    It sounds like your goal is
   to take HTML pages and get them into your new WordPress site.
 * Your best bet is to copy the contents (not the HTML) and paste it into the content
   area of new WordPress Pages.
 * Does that make sense?
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [davey007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davey007/)
 * (@davey007)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/#post-2886337)
 * Hi Paul,
 * Yes but then it won’t keep all the div formats etc. Only the header and footer
   on each page are the same in terms of div layout – all other pages are different.
 * Thanks,
 * Dave
 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/#post-2886339)
 * You could still paste your html into the content area if you use one of these
   plugins that will not trounce your content:
    a. [http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/embed-html/](http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/embed-html/)
   b. [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/raw-html/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/raw-html/)
 * You would ideally have your header and footer in the WordPress theme header.php
   and footer.php file, and then put the guts of your HTML pages into WordPress 
   pages.
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [davey007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davey007/)
 * (@davey007)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/#post-2886343)
 * Yes I am using HTML import now – which seems to be working ok now thanks Paul

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 * Last reply from: [davey007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davey007/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-custom-template-install/#post-2886343)
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