Hi everyone,

So I am creating my first website in Montezuma, and I can't figure out how to get my front page to use a different template. My front page is a static page named "home".

So I made a main template called "slider.php" that I want to apply to the front page, but when I assign the page "home" to the slider.php template, it does not work.

I also tried changing the main template "index.php" and assigning the "home" page to it. But that didn't work.

Can someone help?

Thanks!
Emanuel

Ok I have learned more. The virtual main template is actually working fine. It's a sub template that is not embedding into the virtual template. I made a sub template called "header2.php" and the following code in the virtual main template is not working:

<?php get_header2(); ?>

What am I not understanding here? How do I embed a newly-created sub template into a new main template?

So continuing... I got rid of the header2.php sub template and just put the code directly into my slider.php main template. That seems to work, but ONLY for page-type pages. When I assign it to my statically-defined front page (called "home") it does not work.

So it seems there is a problem trying to assign the front page to a virtual template. Or at least I'm still not getting it.

Ok I found in the instructions that you are supposed to be able to add a new header sub template to a main template by using this php code:

<?php get_header( '2' ); ?>

But it didn't work. I named the sub-template header-2.php like I was supposed to, and I called it up in my new main template (slider.php) using the php code above. Then I assigned slider.php to my front page ("home") with no luck. Then I tried assigned slider.php to a regular page on the site and it also did not work.

Sooooo.....

I am still stuck trying to figure out two things:

1. How to get a new main template to appear on a static front page.
2. How to embed a sub template into a new virtual main template.

Thanks!

See this post.

Thanks jerryc.

That answers my second question, but I still cannot assign a new template to my front page (a static page) no matter what I try.