How To Design a Custom Template For Pages In WordPress

In WordPress, you can easily customize the page by editing the page.php file of the active theme. But the change will affect all pages where no need for customization.

You can avoid this by creating a custom page template.

Using this you can design different-different layouts for the pages and add extra content to them without affecting regular pages on the site.

In this tutorial, I show how you can create custom template and add it to the page in WordPress.

How To Design a Custom Template For Pages In WordPress

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How to send AJAX request from WordPress theme

AJAX makes easier to perform operations without submitting the form like – fetch, insert, delete records from MySQL database, file uploading, etc.

Using AJAX in WordPress is a little different. Here, need to consider two things –

  • AJAX sent URL should be admin-ajax.php.
  • wp_ajax action hooks.

In this tutorial, I show how you can handle AJAX request in your WordPress theme.

How to send AJAX request from WordPress theme

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How to Programmatically File upload from Custom Plugin in WordPress

It easier to implement file uploading programmatically on the custom WordPress plugin using wp_handle_upload() method.

After successfully upload this returns the file path which you can use to store in the MySQL database table or display on the page.

In this tutorial, I create a simple plugin to demonstrate file upload in WordPress.

How to Programmatically file upload from Custom Plugin in WordPress

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How to create simple WordPress Plugin

In WordPress plugins is the PHP script that extends the functionality of the website. They can easily be downloaded and install from the WordPress Dashboard.

You can also create your own plugins and use it.

All plugins are managed in wp-content/plugins/ directory.

In this tutorial, I show how you can create a simple WordPress plugin.

How to create simple WordPress Plugin

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