Pages, custom templates, and sub navigation
Now we'll move from the posts to pages. If we visit the About
page, you can see that it's formatted just like a post, which is definitely not what we want.
We just want the pages to have the title, we don't want metadata, Read More, and stuff like that. So to change all that, we have to create a new file and save it as page.php
.
Now if I go back to that page and reload, it's just a blank white page. It's looking to this file to parse it.
Just to start with, I'll grab what we have in the index
page, paste it in page.php
, and just change some stuff. We want the while
loop, we'll not use get_template_part()
, so we can get rid of that. We want an <article>
tag, and let's give this a class of page
. Let's also put in an <h2>
tag. This is where the title will go, so we'll say <?php the_title(); ?>
, and right under this, we'll put the_content()
:
<?php get_header(); ?> <div class="container content"> <div class="main block...