5 Steps to get_header() and get_footer() from specific WordPress Template Folder

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Step One: Create Custom Page Template in your root WordPress theme folder

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Instead of adding an additional new custom template file in your WordPress template folder, you can create a new folder with a specific name to serve any custom WordPress Page Templates to assign them to specific Pages in your WordPress website.

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I Got a new Land Page in the WordPress Page Templates Folder Like the example below:

page-templates/landing-amp.php

To get the new custom page template layout available to assign it to your specific page on the website you need to hook the function for this.

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Step Two: At the top of your custom page template file add the related function from WordPress Codex

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<?php /* Template Name: Landing AMP Projects */;?>

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To learn more about how it’s work visit Creating Custom Page Templates for Global Use

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Step Three: Create New Folder in your WordPress root Template Folder to serve the new files for get_header() and get_footer() functions

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In my example, I create a new folder in my current active WordPress Template folder with the name “lamp“. In the new folder create your custom get_header() and get_footer() files to load on your custom page template. The customized head and footer files are served as template parts and are not necessary to name them with

• header-{custom-name}.php
• footer-{custom-name}.php

This is because we will get them with the WordPress function get_template_part() and will not serve this 2 new header and footer required WordPress Template files from the root how it is by the default function for WordPress Templates to include Template Tags – Include_Tags

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Step Four: Create two new files in the “lamp” folder as the example below

• /lamp/header-amp.php
• /lamp/footer-amp.php

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Step Five: Open your Custom Page Template from Step One and below the 1st-row code the snippets below

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• <?php get_template_part( ‘lamp/header-amp’ );?>
• <?php get_template_part( ‘lamp/footer-amp’ );?>

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Recommended Article about the next part of loading the content on those new pages with running the basic Loop and display your WordPress Page Content

• get_the_content()
• and the_content()
• get_the_permalink()
• the_permalink()

What the_content and get_the_content are used in WordPress? What the_permalink and get_the_permalink functions are used for in WordPress? How to create a simple WordPress Loop for posts?