{"id":25770,"date":"2016-04-05T04:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/?p=25770"},"modified":"2025-02-18T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:47:43","slug":"apply-wordpress-page-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/apply-wordpress-page-template\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Apply a WordPress Page Template"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of the WordPress themes include page templates that change the way your pages are formatted on the front end of the site. Page templates are a specific type of template file that can be applied to a specific page or groups of pages. By using page templates, your WordPress theme can give you some flexibility for how your pages look and where certain page elements are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-apply-a-wordpress-page-template\"><strong>Apply a WordPress Page Template<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To add a WordPress page template to a page, <strong>edit<\/strong> or <strong>add a new page<\/strong> from the <strong>Pages<\/strong> menu located in the WordPress Dashboard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find the <strong>Page Attributes<\/strong> section. In this section, you\u2019ll see a drop-down list for available page templates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your WordPress theme, you\u2019ll see your specific page template options in the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, for this WordPress theme, you have an option to select the <em>Default template<\/em>, a <em>Front page template<\/em> or a <em>Full-width page template with no sidebar<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-previewing-your-wordpress-page-template\"><strong>Previewing your WordPress Page Template<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To test out how each of these templates would change the look of the page, select a page template. Now, you can <strong>preview<\/strong> the changes to this page and decide whether or not to apply this page template to the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-publishing-the-page\"><strong>Publishing the Page<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019ve selected the page template to apply, just make sure it\u2019s been selected and click <strong>Publish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;ve any question about this article then ask me. And don&#8217;t forget to share this valued content with others. Thanks!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the WordPress themes include page templates that change the way your pages are formatted on the front end &#8230; <a title=\"How to Apply a WordPress Page Template\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/apply-wordpress-page-template\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Apply a WordPress Page Template\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[812,10],"class_list":["post-25770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-page","tag-wordpress","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usefulblogging.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}