Pages, custom templates, and sub navigation

Now we'll move from the posts to pages. If we visit the About page, you can see that it's formatted just like a post, which is definitely not what we want.

We just want the pages to have the title, we don't want metadata, Read More, and stuff like that. So to change all that, we have to create a new file and save it as page.php.

Now if I go back to that page and reload, it's just a blank white page. It's looking to this file to parse it.

Just to start with, I'll grab what we have in the index page, paste it in page.php, and just change some stuff. We want the while loop, we'll not use get_template_part(), so we can get rid of that. We want an <article> tag, and let's give this a class of page. Let's ...

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