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Templates

A template controls the layout of your pages. Not to be confused with Themes (that set the design of your entire site), the template affects the look and feel of an individual page (or post) or groups of pages (or posts.) This guide explains how to work with page templates.

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From the course: Create your website on WordPress.com

About templates

The template controls how the page is displayed.

You can identify the template a page is using by following these steps:

  1. In your WordPress.com dashboard, click Pages.
  2. Click a page’s name to open that page in the editor.
  3. In the Page settings sidebar on the right, under Summary, locate the Template option.
  4. Note the name of the template the page is using.