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I'm converting an HTML theme into WP. I have index.php, header.php, footer.php, which are from HTML.

Then I created pages from within admin area like about-us etc. Created a menu and linked those pages to the menu. The menu is showing fine, but instead of pages I created WP is displaying index.php. So I guess I need a template to display about-us and other pages.

If it's a duplicate please post a link in a comment, I mean an exact duplicate not something that I have to sit and guess the answer. Thanks

I tried to read an article in Codex but its not well written, sounds like gibberish. Should be straighforward, I just need to display pages I created from within the admin area.

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The template for the page is called page.php and should be in the same theme folder as index.php (alternatively you can use the is_page() function to do a template inside index.php but it's more difficult and there's little point to that). Best way forward is to study an existing theme and figure how things work. A look at the template hierarchy should help as well.

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  • Thank you Lucian, that's what I figuered. I copied page.php from another template, but it doesn't work, I thought I could see at least partial page. Yes, let me examine the code.
    – ed-ta
    Commented Jul 2, 2015 at 21:37
  • Ah ok, got it working, turns out I uploaded to another project folder duh...
    – ed-ta
    Commented Jul 2, 2015 at 21:40

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