Question

Ive successfully created my first wp-theme but I’m having a little problem, I’m sure its lack of experience.

Heres my problem;
I created my theme based on my index.html in dreamweaver. Now I’m trying to add a new page (About) but the thing is that the content layout of my index.html and my about.html are not the same.

Can I create a template so that I can pick which areas I want to keep and which I dont need for each page in wordpress?

Answer 1

Yes, here’s the codex link for custom page templates;

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Custom_Page_Templates

You create a new template and make it look totally different to the default one if you want, then apply that template to the page in the backend like the shot below;