I have been using both self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com blog, but there’s one thing about WordPress that I just found out recently. It’s the Page Templates.
To put it simply, Page Templates is a custom-designed WordPress Page that might or might not be present inside the WordPress theme you are using. The presence of Page Templates depend solely on whether the theme’s designer include one or more Page Templates inside the theme or not.
By default, the template for our Page is a blank one. We write what we want, and it’s shown on our Page as expected. However, Page Templates are different. They will show different contents depending on the context of that Template. Some popular examples of Page Templates are Archive Page, Contact Page, and Links Page. As their name imply, Archive Page is the Page that displays the archives of your blog, Contact Page will display a contact form, and Links Page shows the links in your Blogroll. Note that it’s all up to the designer: he/she might include just one, or two, or more Page Templates inside one theme.
And, best of all, we don’t have to write their content manually. The theme designer will have the necessary coding and content needed for it. We simply need to create the Page, and boom, you have a fully working archive/contact/working/whatnot Page.
