Create Custom PHP Page for Wordpress in Doc Root

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I am having trouble, I am pretty new to Wordpress development, and I'm trying to create a page in my public_html that can be used with Wordpress and it's current theme. For example, website.com/text.php would need to include footer and header and also be able to communicate with Wordpress.

I've done a lot of research and cannot seem to find how to pull this off, can anyone here assist me?

Look up theme structure and child themes. The question is too broad to answer here. — Fencer04, Dec 21 '16 at 16:45
Learn how to [create a page template](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-templates/) — Muhammad Abdul-Rahim, Dec 21 '16 at 17:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '16 at 00:43

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Inside of your theme, copy page.php and rename the copy to page-text.php. In the dashboard, create a page titled Text. It will use whatever you place in page-text.php. WordPress can't access pages in the root.

answered Dec 22 '16 at 00:43

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In addition to this, after you create the page, you can also change the URL to be `/text.php` if you want. So then it will look like it is in the root. – Cave Johnson Dec 22 '16 at 00:48

Create Custom PHP Page for Wordpress in Doc Root

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