Title: Complex Page Layout (or not)
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# Complex Page Layout (or not)

 *  [rodrigogalindez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodrigogalindez/)
 * (@rodrigogalindez)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-layout-or-not/)
 * Hello guys,
 * I’m making a complex layout (at least for me) in WP. What I want is a certain
   page as the homepage of WP. This page will have a custom template for managing
   this:
 * 1. The current page content. It’s the blurb for what the client is selling.
    
   2. Featured Work. It’s a post from a certain cat (say, cat 3). I will just load
   the excerpt of the post, that field will contain a little thumb of the project,
   the title and description. 3. Blog. All posts from a certain cat, say, cat 5.
   4. Sections for that specific page. I’m thinking on implementing sub pages for
   this; i.e. say, a “home page” could contain subsections (subpages) like “contact-
   us” “request a quote”, etc., whatever the client needs. So, if the client needs
   a new page, say, “about”, he does it. If he needs section for that page, he will
   make a sub-page of “about”. The “about” page then, should load the contents of
   the page and its subpages in the sidebar (disregarding how many sub-pages he 
   could have, the sidebar for each page should show all sub-pages for that specific
   page).
 * Here’s a mockup of the site layout: [http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/611/37341435oo8.gif](http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/611/37341435oo8.gif)
 * Since I’m a designer I found this a bit tricky to do. I can do the 1, 2 and 3,
   but don’t know how to reuse the $wp_query object (that should be stored in a 
   temp variable while doing the loop for the page I think) to show the content 
   for each sub-page. I know I could do this knowing the page number in each template
   file and doing a query_post(), but the idea is to let client add/delete pages
   on the fly while in the WP admin.
 * Any ideas? I love WordPress and I’m starting to using it as a CMS … but this 
   exceeds me 😀
 * Thanks!
 * Rodrigo

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 *  [ryanarrowsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanarrowsmith/)
 * (@ryanarrowsmith)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-layout-or-not/#post-710286)
 * First off, I’d create a home.php and drop it in your directory. This will give
   you a specialized homepage without disrupting the rest of the site. Then, I’d
   use custom queries instead of the traditional loop for each sections…something
   like this:
 * <?php $my_query = new WP_Query(‘cat=1’);
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $
   my_query->the_post();?>
 * // Your Loop Here
 * <?php endwhile; ?>
 *  Thread Starter [rodrigogalindez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodrigogalindez/)
 * (@rodrigogalindez)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-layout-or-not/#post-710431)
 * Hey Ryan,
 * Thanks. I’m using a custom template page as you suggesting, and so far it works
   nice.
 * Lastly I used custom fields and a hack for get_custom fields so it displays all
   the custom fields but not the _wp_page_template.
 * It works by now.
 * Thanks!
 *  [rubymoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubymoon/)
 * (@rubymoon)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complex-layout-or-not/#post-710642)
 * Okay, so I have done a fair amount of configuring and customizing/editing templates
   and yet this thread just goes right over my head. I have read the general documentation
   and would like to understand or find a complete tutorial on what you described
   above as the fix.
 * Are there tutorials that exist on this topic of subpage, query within specialized
   home page customization??

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