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:
    Customizing a page template
  3. Open the new page-home.php file ...

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