Page Template

I’d like to create a page template similar to the post template I use (DEFAULT SITE POST TEMPLATE – Either #6 or #7, that has the featured image as the page banner). I’m unable to use the TDC because it’s just too hard to use (I’ve spent like 20 hours trying to understand it and read all the tutorials. I’ve never been able to use it).

What’s the easiest way to get a page with an image banner using the featured image as a template sitewide? Thanks.

Add On:
Also trying to do my homepage. Sorry, the whole TDC is just so hard to use. I want something like the Slide Influencer Hero on my homepage. A full width slider. But not for categories – I want the images and titles to be to specific posts.

I tried adding a slide from the regular menu, but it’s not full width and there’s too much white space. The home page question is different than the page template question. Thanks.

• This topic was modified 6 years by nycinsider.

Hi. Please answer my question.

I’d like to create a PAGE template similar to the post template I use (DEFAULT SITE POST TEMPLATE – Either #6 or #7, that has the featured image as the page banner). I’m unable to use the TDC because it’s just too hard to use (I’ve spent like 20 hours trying to understand it and read all the tutorials. I’ve never been able to use it).

What’s the easiest way to get a page with an image banner using the featured image as a template sitewide? Thanks.

This is PAID support. I expect to receive an answer to my question. Not a link to a place publicly available that I already acknowledged in my original question. Please answer my question as if you are paid support.

OK. So where’s a template for a PAGE that has a banner image across the top? Exactly the same as Post #6 or #7. If I imported a template, which one? How are there no page templates with an image when you have 15+ post templates? Doesn’t anyone want an image on their About page?

So you’re saying there is no way to create a page template? To design a page and then re-use the design?

Tutorials are useless. Unless someone can look on my computer and tell me how to move something around – and explain a row or column and how they move around on MY COMPUTER IN MY TEMPLATE – they’re useless. I’ve wasted far too many hours trying to understand your TDC – I don’t have the words to say how impossible it is to use. I’ve publishing websites since 2003 and I’ve never been able to create one page on TDC without running into issues and having to trash the whole thing. You should be able to drag and drop sections on a page in 3 seconds, like any normal program. But you’re all tied into rows and columns that make absolutely no sense to humans and you can’t move anything around.

So I tried to open a current page with TDC, but it says “Notice – not created with blah blah” I also can’t add anything above the content already there (text editor). I tried to drag an element, but it won’t work.

So then I tried to create a new page and use the TDC. I was able to add an image to the top of the page.

1) how do I then make that a page template?
2) How do I assign that template to multiple pages while leaving my content (what’s in the text editor) as the main page content.

when we work on pages, we need the usual WP interface – I need to see the SEO info and info from other plugins only available on the back end of WP. So TDC needs to be just to design templates but not for working with content, meta info, etc.

I give up. It’s like you go out of your way to avoid answering questions in any possible manner that could help your paying customers.

After all this I still have absolutely NO IDEA how to create a page with an image at the top and use it as a template.

Do you not see the problem here? That after all this, and 18 years publishing websites, I still can’t follow a single thing you’ve said?

Just explain in EXACT STEPS, right here, no outside links or opening 8 other tabs, how to do it. I want it all in ONE PLACE IN ORDER.

Or you can do it for me as part of your PAID support! Because at this point I’m ready to start charging you by the hour for wasting my time.

OK. Can you please provide directions for how to read 8 sentences and then look at 13 open tabs to see the screenshots? How does one follow the directions you provide because I never am able to do so. I honestly just can’t read/follow the way you write.

Post type 6 or 7 as explained in the very first sentence in my first post. Is that not clear?