WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a custom page template that will display a list of posts as a grid:

1. Open the wp-content/themes/twentytwentychild folder using a file manager.
2. Create a new template called post-grid.php.
3. Add the following code to the post-grid.php file, define it as a template, and save the changes:

<?php /* Template Name: Post Grid */ ?>

4. Add the following code after the template name definition to load the header and retrieve the posts:

<?php  get_header();  $post_list = new WP_Query(array('post_type'=>'post',    'post_status'=>'publish', 'posts_per_page'=>-1)); ?>

5. Now, we can add the following template code after the code in step 4. This code will be used to display the posts list:

<?php if ( $post_list->have_posts() ...