Being self taught, my current knowledge of WordPress and php has come through adapting existing themes. Therefore, it’s easy to see why it’s easy to stumble across better ways of doing things the more you dive in to different themes.
There are many reasons for wanting to create extra templates within your theme, but for the sake of this post i’m going to assume that I want to show a slightly different version of header.php when I visit my ‘about’ page. Here’s how I would have gone about it before today…