Editing pages & creating a foundational page

  • Resolved eagle2021

    (@eagle2021)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Good day.

    I’d appreciate your help. In Pages > All Pages if I have multiple pages and if I make an editing one page—and it’s only supposed to be for that one page—the other pages get the same editing. What am I doing wrong?

    I want to be able to have what I will call a foundation page, containing just the header/logo and footer. (Maybe in WordPress speak this would be a parent page?) I want to say a template page but in my research and self-learning about WordPress, I see “template” has a different inference. It also sometimes gets mixed up with “theme.” I’m thinking “template” as in MS Word, where there is a foundational page with static text (or logo) and blank to produce further pages with different text/images in the body but with those same static elements. How can I do this so that my Home, Buy, About, etc. pages all have the same header/logo and footer but different body content?

    Thanks,
    John

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You’re right, there is ambiguity among various CMS regarding the meaning of “template” and “theme”. Specific to WP, a theme in part is a collection of templates used for various situations. A theme must have at least one template, most have many templates. A WP template is very much like a MS Word template in that it contains all the static content common to all pages upon which the template is based. The variable elements come from post data.

    What you’re trying to do is how theme templates are supposed to work. Static header and footer, while the body content comes from individual post/page data. What I’m not following is your description:

    if I make an editing one page…the other pages get the same editing.

    That’s not supposed to happen! Editing any one page form the All Pages view should not affect other pages listed there. Are you saying, after editing a page, when you go to edit a different page, the previous page’s edits also appear for the different page? Or is it after making an edit, when you go to the front end, that edit appears in multiple places? Seeing the same edits on different front end pages points to one problem. Seeing the same edits in different page’s editor screen in the back end points to a different problem.

    Thread Starter eagle2021

    (@eagle2021)

    bcworkz,

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I truly appreciate your detailed response!

    I don’t know what I did/didn’t do but that problem was resolved. I am currently dealing with a different issue. In customizing my theme in the WordPress dashboard, I’ll input my logo (an uploaded jpg file) and save as draft. (I don’t want to publish until the site is completed.) Then when I go into Pages the logo isn’t there on the saved page. I have purged the cache while in the page screen. I have gone into cPanel to do a full cache purge. Nothing works. Basically the logo appears in Customizer but not in Pages.

    If you can, I’d appreciate input on this new dilemma.Thank you.

    Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,
    John

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    “when I go into Pages” Where exactly did you go? If the page editor itself, we wouldn’t expect to see a logo there. The editor only displays title and page content, not header, footer, sidebar, etc. The logo would normally appear in the header. Now, if you went to the page preview from the editor, that should appear exactly as the page would if it were published.

    If you are not seeing the logo in page preview and you’ve done all the cache purge stuff, there’s something about your theme preventing it. For theme issues I recommend seeking help through the theme’s dedicated support channel.

    Thread Starter eagle2021

    (@eagle2021)

    My sincerest appreciation! I will follow your advice.

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