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Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing a page template


On an average page, we may want to display the page title. The home page is a special page of course. Let's prepare a custom template for it.

In the following steps, we'll set up a custom page template that will remove the page heading and bring in a custom template for our page contents. We'll equip the custom content template with the markup structure we need for the carousel and columns:

  1. In the main themes folder, find the template-custom.php file. This is a sample page template that's easy for us to adapt.

  2. Make a copy of it and rename it page-home.php as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Open the new page-home.php file in your editor and edit the opening comment, changing the template name to Homepage Template:

    /*
    Template Name: Homepage Template
    */
  4. Save the file.

  5. Now, back in your WordPress Dashboard, edit the page named Home. Change its page template to the newly created Homepage Template.

  6. Update the page.

  7. There is no need to view the page in your browser yet as...

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