Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, 2nd Edition

Create and Use a Page Template

By creating your own page templates, you can add pages to your theme that fit your needs. Perhaps you want a page that does not include a comments area. You can have it by creating your own page template.

This option is not available for users at WordPress.com. In this example, you create a template for a page without a footer section.

Create and Use a Page Template

Using your FTP program, save a copy of the page.php file from your theme directory to your computer.

Open page.php with a text editor or a source ...