Adding a new page template

[Tom]

Tom

October 31, 2015 at 4:21 pm

Hello, I created a new page template from the page-sidebar.php and called it page-newhome.php with a template name of New Home Page. It is of course just for the home page. When I go to the wordpress page I can assign the page template to the page but unfortunately none of my changes show up.

The primary reason I’m creating another template is because I need to use the Advanced Custom fields plugin to output particular items and I don’t want to crossover any other pages by using one of the default templates. I know there are other ways of handling the ACF fields but this was my chosen path.

So if you can assist in leading me in the right direction on why my page template isn’t kicking in that would be great. I also want to point out that I am using a child theme and have only tried to override the templates/content-page.php. For that I just created a new part call templates/content-homepage.php and changed that reference in my new page template to point to my new part.

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