Creating a Featured Page

When you create a static page in WordPress, your blog will look for the page.php file by default. Currently, that will display your content and that will look like the Sample Page. If you want something with a little more pizazz, then you can use the Featured Page template, and it will display content that will look like the Featued Page.

You may be asking yourself how you can create a Featured Page - this can be done easily, but needs a few steps in order for it to work. First, when you create the page, you will need to select the Featured Page template within your dashboard. Here’s a screenshot that will show you where to select that:

All of the coding for the Featured Page can be found in the page_featured.php file of the Revolution theme. In order to know how to customize certain parts of it, you should know what each section is, and where the information that is there comes from. Here’s a breakdown of the main sections of the Featured Page:

Section #1 - This is hardcoded text and can be found and modified within the page_featured.php file.

Section #2 - This is a dynamic WordPress call, and is currently set to display the previous 10 posts, sorted by descending order of date written.

Section #3 - This is the main content area of the page - whatever you type into the text editor while creating a page will show up in this location.

Section #4 - This is hardcoded text and can be found and modified within the sidebar_page.php file.