Late last year i decided to start a mini forum where theme and plugin developers could submit their work if they wanted it to be featured on this blog,the idea to start came because i have been receiving quite a bunch of emails from theme designers who wanted their theme(s) to be listed here, so i started the “submit” section and it’s doing the job right now.

One thing that i did do with the “Submit” page is that i gave it a custom page, you will notice on that page that i have removed the footer and sidebar, this is not a hard thing to do, in fact you can find all the info you need at the WordPress Codex.

However to save you some time here’s a quick look at how you too can create a custom WordPress page:

1. The Page File

In you theme folder (/wp-content/themes/your-theme) you should have a file called

page.php

This is the file that is used to display your WordPress Pages, but since were looking to create a custom page we need to take some elements from the page.php file and add it into a new file.

2. Creating a new file for your custom page

Now what you need to do is create a new php file, you can do this with a text editor or if your using Cpanel just choose “create a new file” and let’s call it custom.php (you can call it anything you want) and in that file you MUST add this code at the very top:

That is basically the code to indentify your custom page, once your done with that just copy and paste all the codes from your page.php file into your custom.php file.

3. To Remove Sidebar and Footer

Removing the sidebar and footer from your custom page is as easy as identifying and removing, here’s what you need to find:

< ? php get_sidebar(); ? >

< ? php get_footer(); ? >

Once you have spotted that to line of codes all you have to do is delete it.

4. Implementing your Custom Page

What you need to do now is to implement your custom page, just go into your WordPress admin interface and select

Manage >> Pages

Choose the page you want to edit and you will see a “page template” box on the right, from the dropdown choose “custom” and save your file.

That’s it, you now have a custom page without sidebar and footer, like i said earlier this is just a quick look at the page template function, you should read the codex to get a comprehensive look at the pages template, some people would want to have their content stretch a little wider to compensate the space left by the sidebar and you can do that via your CSS file.

I’ve also created a custom.php file for download in case your too lazy to do it yourself

Download Here

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