Thanks for reaching out.
If I understand your request correctly, you are trying to achieve two things.
A. Assigning a custom template to a page
B. Creating a blog page
If you are referring to something else, please let me know (and ideally share a screenshot or video). But I’ll share some information below on the two things I think you are trying to accomplish.
Assigning a custom template to a page
You can assign a template to a page through the WordPress page editor:
1. Edit the page.
2. Open the Page Settings sidebar.
3. Look for Summary > Template and click on Page. It will open a menu, then click on Swap Template. A modal will open, and from this modal, you can choose a different template for your page.
Here is a gif showing this.
Creating a blog page
To create a blog page, you don’t need to create a template as the theme already has one (unless you are modifying the blog page layout):
1. Create a blank page and give it a title, such as Blog.
2. From the WP admin sidebar, go to Settings > Reading.
3. In the Reading Settings, you will find an option named Posts page. Here, select the page you just created for the blog.
Here is a screenshot.
Let me know if you need further assistance!
Thank you so much! The second option worked smoothly.
I still cannot assign a standard template from the “extandable” theme.
Here is a video of a German version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k5evKpKyhQPPH0M4_XHUmC5b_yJvn3RA/view?usp=sharing
At the end I move back to the template settings and switch to “standard” templates but can only select “Seiten” – No other template out of the theme can be selected. I gues I am missunderstanding something. Thank you for the hint, it works now for me and I can move forward with the project. The template question will probably come up in 2 weeks again.
Thanks for sharing the video. It’s helpful to understand the issue.
The issue you have is that the template (custom-home) contains a Query block that is inheriting the query from the page (meaning the Query block is requesting data for the current page). I see you want the data for blog posts. To achieve this, you need to toggle off the option “Inherit query from template” in the custom template (in your case, the template name is home-custom).
For that:
1. Edit the home-custom template.
2. Select the Query Loop block from the List View.
3. Open the Block settings page and look for “Inherit query from template” and toggle it off.
Here is a video on how to toggle it off: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2sBjwHBMj3UZWLjNo_8m_eIOPS8YA9s/view?usp=drive_link
