Twenty Twenty Four – Child Theme

  • Good morning,
    I premise that I am fairly new to wordpress, but I have a question regarding the use of twenty twenty four child themes.
    I have created and enabled the child theme, it works correctly and everything is exactly like the parent one.
    I would like to create a new page, with a different template from the existing ones. Following various guides, however, I have come to realise that this theme, unlike the old ones, is block-based, so it does not directly use php files that I could have easily modified in the child theme, but instead a .json file inside which, I understand, the templates, parts of templates and patterns are inserted.

    However, I cannot understand how I can create a new template with this configuration, not even by studying the docuemnation offered by wordpress.

    How can I do this?

    Thank you very much in advance!

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  • Moderator jordesign

    (@jordesign)

    Hi @simone1414 – you’re correct that newer Block themes do not use PHP files for the creation of templates. But the good news is that you can create them completely visually using the new Site Editor.

    Site Editor

    You can follow these instructions specifically to create a new template and start editing it.

    https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/template-editor/#to-add-a-new-template

    Thread Starter simone1414

    (@simone1414)

    OK, thank you very much for the information.

    Are the changes, and also the creation of a new template, going to be affected by future updates of the parent theme or having created a child theme will not be affected?

    As for the .json file issue, is there a guide to creating a new page template via manual code instead of just directly in wordpress?

    Thank you very much in ancipo of your time.

    Moderator jordesign

    (@jordesign)

    Hi @simone1414

    Are the changes, and also the creation of a new template, going to be affected by future updates of the parent theme or having created a child theme will not be affected?

    The good news is that any new templates (or changes to existing ones) added in the editor will remain in place when theme updates happen. They are stored in the site’s database so take precedence over the actual theme files.

    As for the .json file issue, is there a guide to creating a new page template via manual code instead of just directly in wordpress?

    To clarify the purpose of the .json file – it is for defining styles for the theme (so in a way it isn’t related to the creation of templates).

    In Block themes – the templates are HTML files – so you can add them manually to a child theme that way.

    https://fullsiteediting.com/lessons/creating-block-based-themes/#h-step-2-add-your-first-block-template

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