Customizing: Adding PHP Pages

Sometimes you want to have a PHP page that can be accessed via your WordPress site and in fact looks like it is a part of the website. You do not have to use any of the hooks or filters. This is probably the easiest way to integrate custom code into a WordPress site.

• Duplicate the post.php or page.php file in your theme folder.  For LabCatsCoding, this is located at /wp-content/themes/bb-theme-child.
• However, because we use a child theme, we need to copy the file from /wp-content/themes/bb-theme folder to my /wp-content/themes/bb-theme-child folder

Here is what that file looks like

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="fl-content-full container">
   <div class="row">
      <div class="fl-content col-md-12">
         <?php
            if ( have_posts() ) :
               while ( have_posts() ) :
                 the_post();
                get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );
              endwhile;
            endif;
        ?>
     </div>
   </div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

• Remove the code between the two inner PHP tags so it looks like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="fl-content-full container">
   <div class="row">
      <div class="fl-content col-md-12">
         <?php
           // Here's where you write your PHP code!
        ?>
     </div>
   </div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

• Then, add these three lines below to the top of your file.

<?php
/*
Template Name:UserProfile
*/
?>

• Finally, create a new Page and select the template to match the template name given to your PHP page

• When you go to the URL of the new page – it will run your PHP code and display in the style of your website.