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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Using page templates in your theme


Even though most of the WordPress themes use a unique page template, our favorite blogging engine allows us to create as many different page templates as we want.

Why always use the same page layout in your blog? Using different page templates will make your blog look a lot more professional.

In this recipe, you'll learn to create and use page templates.

Getting ready

To achieve this recipe, you only need a WordPress theme and a text editor. In the following example, we use the WordPress default theme. If you're using another theme, you'll have to adjust the code a bit to make it fit your theme HTML markup.

How to do it...

Let us start with creating a test page template and learn how to create more page templates in the following recipes.

  1. On your theme directory, create a new file and name it testpage.php.

  2. Open the testpage.php file in your favorite text editor and insert the following code in it:

    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: Test Page
    */
    ?>
    <?php get_header...