Wordpress custom page code

Question

I'm very new to wordpress and was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a tutorial which will explain how to add my own code to wordpress pages.

So far all that I've been able to find is that I'm supposed to copy the page.php from my template and use that as the template for a page added in wordpress. This however only gives me control over the body and not the header/nav menu/sidebar.

Am I correct is assuming I must replace the method calls such as get_header(), etc with the code it would generate and manipulate it from there? Also is it correct if I change the arguments to get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); and add a php page with the appropriate name for the body?

Answer 1

Way 1 You can do this:

1) add new page

2) add these code to index.php or page.php

<?php

if (is_page('About 3C')) {?>

<div>Display this particular div</div>

<?php }

else { ?>

<div>Display that particular div</div>
<?php }?>

or

<?php 

if (is_page('About 3C')) {

<div>Display this particular div</div>

}

else {

<div>Display that particular div</div>
}

?>

assume your added page name is: About 3C

and you can call the database from above code

OR way 2: please refer: http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-wordpress-custom-page-template