Title: .php page within subfolder
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# .php page within subfolder

 *  Resolved [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/)
 * I’m trying to make Pages whose url will not be an id.php type file that WP makes,
   but will belong in a subfolder. My blog will be the home page of my missionary
   support site and want to have other Pages with the same design as my blog.
 * I tried making a Page but don’t know where the file is to rename it. I tried 
   placing it in a folder and it is broken because it can’t “get” the “header”.
 * Does this make sense? Any suggestions?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578905)
 * thats not how wordpress works — pages created with wordpress dont go in folder..
   they’re created dynamically – the content of which is stored in your database,
   not in a file that can be moved physically.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578906)
 * if you merely want to create a basic page (not using the wordpress Page creation
   thing), you can do this:
 * 1. create a page using your favorite editor – for simplicities sake, it needs
   to be a .php page
 * 2. upload it to wherever you like on your site.
 * 3. To use wordpress functions and whatnot in the page you need to call wp-blog-
   header.php at the top your created page.
 * For instance, lets say you created a page named test.php
    and you have uploaded
   it to a directory named things In my example: The url to your blog would be: 
   [http://www.myblog.com](http://www.myblog.com)
 * The url to your new page would be: [http://www.myblog.com/things/test.php](http://www.myblog.com/things/test.php)
 * at the top of test.php you need to have the following:
 *     ```
       <?php
       require('../wp-blog-header.php');
       ?>
       ```
   
 * The two dots tell PHP to look for the file wp-blog-header in the directory above
   where your newly created test.php is.
 * Follow?
 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578940)
 * Yeah, that makes sense. I just didn’t know how to change where it calls the header
   from since it will be a different folder.
 * Do you know how to change my title since the header pulls the header from the
   blog/page WP entry?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578943)
 * I dont understand your question, sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578947)
 * Okay. So if I publish a Page on WP, the post name will serve as the title of 
   my page (the title within my header). The header is set-up so that the post/page
   title is the title in the browser window. It changes based upon the title I publish
   because it calls it up automatically. But if I create my own page and upload 
   it without publishing it through WP, the title won’t be called from the post/
   page. So I will want to change it somehow without editing the header.php file.
   Hope that makes sense.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578950)
 * well you put that into the page you are creating.. remember what Ive suggested
   is basically just creating a normal page just like yo would if you didnt have
   wordpress.
 * Thats what `<title></title>` is for.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578951)
 * _I’m trying to make Pages whose url will not be an id.php type file that WP makes,
   but will belong in a subfolder. _
 * Just a thought:
    If you are using WP anyway, wouldn’t be much-much simpler to
   set up your “nice permalinks”, i.e. instead of example.com/?page_id=2 > something
   like example.com/about ? And having that, you can create a parent Page, which
   would function as a “folder”, and all its children Pages as “files” in that folder:
   example.com/about example.com/about/about-me example.com/about/about-the-site…
   etc.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578954)
 * you can tell I dont use that pages thing eh 😛
 * I make all my pages with blood sweat and tears 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578955)
 * Yeah, I’ve been talking to a friend and that’s what he did. Or something similar.
   So I’m going to try that tomorrow. Thanks for all of your help! I think I can
   figure this out.
 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-page-within-subfolder/#post-578959)
 * Cool. I have it working the Permalinks way. I have it url.com/year/month/post-
   name/ I didn’t think that would work for Pages because I thought it would still
   throw the year and month in there. But it only does the Page so it is [http://www.ianandjocelyn.com/resources/](http://www.ianandjocelyn.com/resources/)(
   that’s now an actual URL right now but will be.)
 * So I’ll keep playing with this tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

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