Comments on: WordPress: How to add and link static or custom pages

By: Nauman Nisar PHP developer

Nauman Nisar PHP developer — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:10:29 +0000

Thanx, it was really helpful and solved my problem. I am really grateful …..

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:17:28 +0000

This article was a great help in that I can now link static pages with some of this code.

However, I wanted to call some parts of my static page as PHP includes from my template folder.

Your information makes it possible to successfully name and link PHP pages to WordPress any way that one wants. But when I try to swap out my HTML for PHP includes, pages don’t link.

How does one do this and get it to work?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:17:41 +0000

Thanks for the helpful info above. My question is just the reverse. I have a static html page that won’t link to the WordPress pages. What is the correct link stucture? In other words a vistor is looking at my html page and I have a llink in the static menu called Blog. My actual blog is sitting on a page in WordPress called Blog. So can you tell me exactly how that link looks, because the page_id=4 stuff is not working.

Thanks

By: cute programmer

cute programmer — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:13:44 +0000

i have a client that he wants me to use wordpress, im really frustrated with this problem. its seems it doesnt work for me. i tried and followed all instructions.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:37:52 +0000

Fantastic! This post saved me days of frustration, and it is helping people like me YEARS after you initially wrote it!

You may want to add how to include and link to the CSS files and images for the new web page. I linked to my new pages’s CSS files by following the same procedure as uploading the new PHP page and linked accordingly. As for the images, I just uploaded to the usual WP media file, then copied the image’s URL and added that to my

Thanks again!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:25:14 +0000

@ Luisa Ambros

you can try “Template Name” feature from:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

Basically two steps:
1. Turn your file as template.
2. When you create a page, set the “Template” value from “Page Attributes” section.

Also try to double check by using is_home() and is_front_page()

By: Luisa Ambros

Luisa Ambros — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:46:30 +0000

Ok! Following your steps, everything worked fine. In “products.php” I used the wordpress code: get_header(); .

The header.php have this:
if (!is_home()) { echo ‘I am not home.php’; } else { echo ‘I am the home.php’; }

is_home() is a wordpress conditional tag that checks if the main page is being displayed (most of times “home.php”).

When I access “products.php” it shows “I am the home.php”, what means that wordpress is understanding “products.php” as the main page.

Do you know how to make wordpress recognize “products.php” as NOT the main page so it can print “I am not home.php”?

Thank you!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:16:48 +0000

@ Luisa Ambros

you question is not clear. i think you may have missed some points.

By: Luisa Ambros

Luisa Ambros — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:20:38 +0000

Thank you for sharing this! This solved my problem but I also noticed that wordpress consider your “products.php” as a “home” page of template. So, the following code is not printed on it: I’m not a home template. Do you have any idea about how print “I’m not a home template” like this condition in “products.php”? Thank you again!

By: Glasses online

Glasses online — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:24:31 +0000

It really works and solved my problem for the same. Thanks much