This is more of a process question than coding. I have a custom homepage with logo, menu, footer similar to other pages. But there are few other contents which are different in the homepage, as usual, i.e, a title, a description div, a social links div and a few more, which are only in the home page.
Now the question is, since I want the admin to change this dynamically, how should I easily implement this for the site owner. Should I make a top-level menu named Homepage in WordPress dashboard and add all these meta boxes (with title, description, social fields) on that admin page so that he can fill this in from the back-end or make a custom post-type with the mentioned custom fields? Or should I add a menu under appearance with the relevant fields to be filled.
I am confused about the standard way. I am new to WordPress and just learning. This clarification will help me get a pre-idea. I completed the HTML and now converting the site to WordPress. Just give me a general overview please, nothing detail, I'll get the rest done. I would like to know the difference between the options mentioned above in a nut-shell (what is for what actually) and what is the standard way to add the custom home page fields for the site admin to input page contents easily.
Thanks in advance.
You would need to create a static front page.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Basically you can create a standard page and then from wordpress customizer make that page a front page. Client will edit it from the back end just as any other standard page.
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I like to know how you would go about creating a home page in plain html and have WordPress run the other pages?
The reason is I’d like to create a solely plain html website but I need WordPress for my contact page it has a large form on it and I use a plugin to generate it and forms are a bit beyond my knowledge at the moment to create a contact page myself.
(I have tried creating a template page but then WordPress adds unnecessary code [from plugins ] and makes the AMP invalid)
Honestly I'd try and keep it self contained in WordPress itself.
If for some reason you really want a separate HTML/PHP Homepage, follow these steps:
Add a my-homepage.php file to your /wp-content/themes/ACTIVE-THEME directory
Inside that file put the following code:
Add a new page (Pages > Add New)
Give it a recognizable name like "My Homepage"
In the "Template" selector on the right hand side, pick "My HTML Homepage" and click Publish
Go to Settings > Reading, change Your homepage displays to A static page and pick the page you just made
Now you can add your own code as you see fit. Nothing "WordPress" related will get loaded or hooked in since there's no functions on that file - so you're free to code HTML (or PHP) to your heart's content.
You can see a bit more indepth answer over on WPSE: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/296592/how-to-use-custom-html-file-instead-of-wordpress-homepage
I have an general education landing page in Wordpress, thats needs a new theme. I want to just change that ONE page but not impact any other page. I have a business premium account with Wordpress. Please help, thank you.
You can't change the theme just in one page. To customize that page you would need to create a custom template by creating a template or a file on your server to only affect that page.
Something like:
Page templates
Or:
page-87.php 87 being the page ID
front-page.phpIf the page you want to costumize is the front page
page-landing.phpIf the name of the page is "landing
This might help: WpBeginner
I've a wordpress website, I'm also have a html page. Now I need to add the separate html page to wordpress.
This is an well designed order form. I want to add the order form in to my wordpress site. I need a "OrderNOw" menu and when visitor click on this menu then order form page will show and customer will fill the form and able to submit an order to me.
Please give me a better solution.
I usually create a template page in the current theme from the given HTML (remember to rename the extension to .php).
Then create a new page from the Wordpress administration and set the Template field accordingly (just set the title and leave the content blank).
Finally you just need to add this page to your menu.
I am using squarespace developer kit and going well. I am wanting to integrate some queries to display some very simple data form my blogs that will appear on my home page ONLY.
Not being very fluent in JSON, I am struggling to implement the query on the home page. I have it set up to display the data from the selected blog but it displays the data through each page.
I only want the data to be visible on the home page at the top. Not in the header but inside where all the content is.
Here is my query that works perfectly well
<squarespace:query collection="feature-articles" limit="10">
<li>
{.repeated section items}
<li>{title}</li>
{.end}
</li>
</squarespace:query>
Can the data be inserted into a code block via the content manager so I can then insert into within the content or am I totally wrong in thinking that.
What I will then do is style/ add or edit the UI of the data into either a carousel or whatever is needed for the project.
I just need to know where to store the query so that it fits in with the content.
Appreciate any time.
Review the following link to see how you can edit a template file, to make different pages use different templates.
http://developers.squarespace.com/template-configuration/
Make a completely custom template just for your homepage then paste you code within your custom .region file as outlin ed in the above guide.
Here is the page about working with template pages:
http://developers.squarespace.com/layouts-regions/
Seeing as you know about , I have a feeling you might already know this, so you might want to be a bit more specific about how your displaying your code and I will gladly update my answer.
In wordpress when we are customizing a menu, we can add custom links as menu items in it. Can these links be used to access the pages created in wordpress?
I believe the answer is yes. If I understand the question what you would actually be doing is creating a custom "title". If the page exists in WordPress it should be available via the menu, and the title can be change to whatever you wish. If for some reason your page doesn't show up in the pages list of the custom menu section you can always use the custom links input area to ad whatever link you need.