Creating a Home page template and being able to select it at the "Template box" in the Page Editor

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Hi, I’m new with Roots and I was about to go crazy (2 hours reading) trying to create a Home page template so I’m posting this in order to help others newbies like me (I don’t have a coder background, just the basic wordpress knowledge, perhaps that is why I got confused) to create new templates.

The steps are:

1.- Duplicate the “template-custom.php” file in the Roots folder and name it template-home.php

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2.- Inside the file, look for this lines:

<?php/* Template Name: Custom Template */?>

3.- Change it for:

<?php/* Template Name: Home Template */?>

4.- Go to the editor of the page and select it from the right box
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5.- That’s it.

After this you’d probably figure it out how to make the rest (customise it and so on).

Hope it helps.

#2

WordPress covers these basics pretty well in the codex, but welcome to Roots and feel free to post anything Roots specific here in the forum.

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