Sometimes, you may not want all of our Wordpress pages to look exactly the same. You can easily create multiple page templates so that you can diversify the look of your Wordpress blog so your whole blog does not look exactly the same. Here’s how:

Using your FTP program, browse to your theme’s folder. This would be located at:

Wordpress Home Folder > wp-content > themes > theme name

Now that you are in your theme’s folder, most themes will name their page template “page.php”. Download that file to your computer, and then open it using a plain text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++. On the second line, add the name you would like to assign to your new Wordpress page template. Each page template has to have a unique name. It is important that you enter the page name exactly like this:

You would replace “Test Page” with whatever unique name you want to assign to your new page template. You can create as many page templates as you want.

Now, save and close the file. The next step is to rename the file. Again, each file should be named something different. For example, you could have page.php, page-test.php, page-third.php, etc. Once you’ve renamed the file, upload it to your theme’s folder.
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Many Wordpress bloggers want to exclude pages from their search results and only search through posts.

True, there are plugins available that will help you accomplish this, but I always try to avoid installing slow, bulky plugins when I don’t have to. Using this method, you only need to add 1 line of code to your search.php file.

Search Only Posts

To exclude all pages from your search results and only search posts, open up your search.php file located in your theme’s directory.

Towards the top of the page, you will see:

Just below that line, add the following:

So now, it will look like this:

Using a simple PHP if statement, we only search through posts.

The last step is to open the file wp-includes/functions.php and scroll down to the very bottom just before you see:

and enter the following:

That’s all there is to it! Now any searches performed on your blog will show only post results and exclude all the pages!

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