Title: Template Page Development: Best Practice
Last modified: December 7, 2016

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# Template Page Development: Best Practice

 *  [jenniferlaurenmills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferlaurenmills/)
 * (@jenniferlaurenmills)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-page-development-best-practice/)
 * Hello,
 * I have been coding HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY for a couple years now. I also
   know a little PHP.
 * I am developing a multi-page website using one theme. The theme is ZERIF-LITE
   and has provided me with the front page. What I have done for the other pages
   has taken the font-page.php and formatted it specifically to each page – adding
   the suitable HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT. Once I have created the page I upload 
   the file through FTP and use that specific page template. Therefore I do not 
   have to change anything in WORDPRESS’S GUI (dashboard).
 * Is this a best practice? If not what would be?
 * I have thought of creating includes for sections and pulling them in much like
   header.php/footer.php but I would still need a different template for each page?
 * Any thoughts or advice on this would be very much appreciated. I can’t help but
   think this may not be the best approach and I cannot find any documentation to
   send me in another direction.
 * Thank you,
    Jennifer

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-page-development-best-practice/#post-8530132)
 * The above approach seems very labour intensive and far better suited to building
   a static site rather than using a dynamic CMS like WordPress. PHP includes are
   also not recommended within page templates. You’d be better off looking running
   multiple queries and/or using shortcodes instead. Maybe if you provided a little
   more information as to what is needed on these pages, someone would be able to
   offer suggestions for a better approach.

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