How can I add a PHP page to WordPress

Question

I want to create a custom page for my WordPress blog that will execute my PHP code in it  whilst remaining a part of the overall site CSS theme design   The PHP code will make use of third-party APIs  so I need to include other PHP files    How do I accomplish this   N B   I do not have a specific need to interact with the WordPress API - apart from including certain other PHP libraries  I need I have no other dependencies in the PHP code I want to include in a WordPress page  So obviously any solution that didn t require learning the WordPress API would be the best one

User · Answer

The best way to add PHP pages in WordPress to Page Template in the child-theme folder.

How to create Page Template in WordPress.

Create a file named template-custom.php and put it in /wp-content/theme/my-theme/.

<?php
 /*
 * Template Name: Custom Template
 * Custom template used for custom php code display
 * @package   Portafolio WordPress Theme
 * @author    Gufran Hasan
 * @copyright Copyright templatecustom.com
 * @link      http://www.templatecustom.com
 */
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
  //write code here

 ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

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You don t need to interact with the API or use a plugin   First  duplicate post php or page php in your theme folder  under  wp-content themes themename     Rename the new file as templatename php  where templatename is what you want to call your new template   To add your new template to the list of available templates  enter the following at the top of the new file    lt  php    Template Name  Name of Template      gt    You can modify this file  using PHP  to include other files or whatever you need   Then create a new page in your WordPress blog  and in the page editing screen you ll see a Template dropdown in the Attributes widget to the right  Select your new template and publish the page   Your new page will use the PHP code defined in templatename php  Source  Creating Custom Page Templates for Global Use

User · Answer

You can also directly use the PHP page  like to create the PHP page and run with full path   Like  http   localhost path filename php

User · Answer

Create a page call it my-page php and save it under your theme directory  Now  edit this php file and write the following line at the top of the page   lt  php    Template Name  My Page      gt    Write your PHP code under the custom page definition line  you can call your other WP template  functions inside this file   Start like   lt  php require once  header php     gt  OR  whatever way you are integrating your header and footer to keep the layout consistent   Since this is a my page  you NEED TO CREATE A PAGE from WordPress admin panel  Go to Admin    Pages    Add New  Add a page title  depending upon how you have coded the custom page  you might add page body  description  as well  You can fully skip the description if it   s written in the custom php page   At right hand side  select Template  Choose My Custom Page from the dropdown  You are all set  Go to the slug  permalink  created by  wordpress  1  and see the page

User · Answer

If you wanted to create your own  php file and interact with WordPress without 404 headers and keeping your current permalink structure there is no need for a template file for that one page   I found that this approach works best  in your  php file    lt  php     require once dirname   FILE        wp-config php         wp- gt init         wp- gt parse request         wp- gt query posts         wp- gt register globals         wp- gt send headers            Your WordPress functions here        echo site url      gt    Then you can simply perform any WordPress functions after this  Also  this assumes that your  php file is within the root of your WordPress site where your wp-config php file is located   This  to me  is a priceless discovery as I was using require once dirname   FILE        wp-blog-header php    for the longest time as WordPress even tells you that this is the approach that you should use to integrate WordPress functions  except  it causes 404 headers  which is weird that they would want you to use this approach  Integrating WordPress with Your Website   I know many people have answered this question  and it already has an accepted answer  but here is a nice approach for a  php file within the root of your WordPress site  or technically anywhere you want in your site   that you can browse to and load without 404 headers    Update  There is a way to use wp-blog-header php without 404 headers  but this requires that you add in the headers manually  Something like this will work in the root of your WordPress installation    lt  php     require once dirname   FILE        wp-blog-header php        header  HTTP 1 1 200 OK        header  Status  200 All rosy            Your WordPress functions here        echo site url      gt    Just to update you all on this  a little less code needed for this approach  but it s up to you on which one you use

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If you re like me  sometimes you want to be able to reference WordPress functions in a page which does not exist in the CMS  This way  it remains backend-specific and cannot be accidentally deleted by the client   This is actually simple to do just by including the wp-blog-header php file using a PHP require     Here s an example that uses a query string to generate Facebook Open Graph  OG  data for any post   Take the example of a link like http   example com yourfilename php 1 where 1 is the ID of a post we want to generate OG data for   Now in the contents of yourfilename php which  for our convenience  is located in the root WordPress directory    lt  php     require  dirname    FILE         wp-blog-header php           uri     SERVER  REQUEST URI         pieces   explode       uri        post id   intval   pieces 1             og title      title   get the title  post id           og description      post   get post  post id        descr    post- gt post excerpt          og image      img data array   get attached media  image    post id        img src   null       img count   0       foreach    img data array as  img data             if    img count  gt  0                 break            else                  img count               img src    img data- gt guid                     end og image    gt   lt  DOCTYPE HTML gt   lt html gt   lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt   lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  user-scalable yes    gt   lt meta property  og title  content   lt  php echo  title    gt     gt   lt meta property  og description  content   lt  php echo  descr    gt     gt   lt meta property  og locale  content  en US    gt   lt meta property  og type  content  website    gt   lt meta property  og url  content   lt  php echo site url     your redirect path   post id    gt     gt   lt meta property  og image  content   lt  php echo  img src    gt     gt   lt meta property  og site name  content  Your Title    gt   lt  html gt    There you have it  generated sharing models for any post using the post s actual image  excerpt and title   We could have created a special template and edited the permalink structure to do this  but since it s only needed for one page and because we don t want the client to delete it from within the CMS  this seemed like the cleaner option     EDIT 2017  Please note that this approach is now deprecated  For WordPress installations from 2016  please see How can I add a PHP page to WordPress  for extra parameters to include before outputting your page data to the browser

User · Answer

Apart from creating a custom template file and assigning that template to a page  like in the example in the accepted answer   there is also a way with the template naming convention that WordPress uses for loading templates  template hierarchy    Create a new page and use the slug of that page for the template filename  create a template file named page- slug  php   WordPress will automatically load the template that fits to this rule

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You can add any php file in under your active themes folder like     wp-content themes your active theme   and then you can go to add new page from wp-admin and select this page template from page   template options     lt  php     Template Name  Your Template Name       gt       And there is one other way like you can include your file in   functions php and create shortcode from that and then you can put that   shortcode in your page like this       CODE in functions php   function abc     include once  your file name php      add shortcode  abc     abc         And then you can use this shortcode in wp-admin side page like this    abc

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If you don t want to deal with the WordPress API  then Adam s answer is really the best one   If you were willing to deal with the API I would suggest hooking into the  template-redirect  hook  which would allow you to point a particular URL or page to an arbitrary PHP file while still having access to WordPress

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The widely accepted answer by Adam Hopkinson is not a fully automated method of creating a page  It requires a user to manually create a page in the back-end of WordPress  in the wp-admin dash   The problem with that is  a good plugin should have a fully automated setup  It should not require clients to manually create pages   Also  some of the other widely accepted answers here involve creating a static page outside of WordPress  which then include only some of the WordPress functionality to achieve the themed header and footer  While that method may work in some cases  this can make integrating these pages with WordPress very difficult without having all its functionality included   I think the best  fully automated  approach would be to create a page using wp insert post and have it reside in the database  An example and a great discussion about that  and how to prevent accidental deletion of the page by a user  can be found here  wordpress-automatically-creating-page  Frankly  I m surprised this approach hasn t already been mentioned as an answer to this popular question  it has been posted for 7 years

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Creating the template page is the correct answer  For this  just add this into the page you created inside the theme folder    lt  php            Template Name  mytemplate          gt    For running this code  you need to select  mytemplate  as the template of the page from the back end   Please see this link for getting the correct details  https   developer wordpress org themes template-files-section page-template-files

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Try this          The template for displaying demo page       template name  demo template

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Any answer did not cover if you need to add a PHP page outside of the WordPress Theme  This is the way   You need to include wp-load php    lt  php require once  wp-load php      gt    Then you can use any WordPress function on that page

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You can name your file  newpage php  - put it in your theme directory in wp-content  You can make it a page template  see http   codex wordpress org Pages     or you can include it in one of the PHP files in your theme  such as header php or single php   Even better  create a child theme and put it in there  so you leave your theme code alone  and it s easier to update   http   codex wordpress org Pages Creating Your Own Page Templates

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Just create a page-mytitle php file to the folder of the current theme  and from the Dashboard a page  mytitle    Then when you invoke the page by the URL you are going to see the page-mytitle php  You must add HTML  CSS  JavaScript  wp-loop  etc  to this PHP file  page-mytitle php

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You will want to take a look in to WordPress  plugin API   This explains how to  hook  and  filter  in to different parts of the WordPress mechanics  so you can execute custom PHP code pretty much anywhere at any given time  This hooking  filtering  and custom code authoring can all take place in your functions php file in any of your themes  Happy coding      WordPress Plugin API WordPress Hooks Filter Database WordPress PHPXHref by Yoast

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lt  php    Template Name  CustomPageT1      gt    lt  php get header      gt    lt div id  primary  class  content-area  gt       lt main id  main  class  site-main  role  main  gt           lt  php            Start the loop          while   have posts       the post                    Include the page content template              get template part   template-parts content    page                     If comments are open or we have at least one comment  load up the comment template              if   comments open      get comments number                       comments template                                  End of the loop          endwhile            gt        lt  main gt  lt  --  site-main -- gt        lt  php get sidebar   content-bottom       gt    lt  div gt  lt  --  content-area -- gt    lt  php get sidebar      gt   lt  php get footer      gt

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