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Hallo @aprobert,

your question was a bit too inaccurate, so I didn’t know where to start “amateur-friendly”.

That’s why I hope you know how to create a child theme (https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes) and I answer @krlklm’s question:

From scratch, your child theme has 3 items:
the child theme DIRECTORY, I called it “twentyseventeen-child”, therein:
style.css
functions.php

Wordpress uses different template php files (stubs) to display the site. All those template php stubs are in the theme directory \wp-content\themes\twentyseventeen\

There are:
front-page.php – to display the front page
page.php – for displaying ALL static pages
single.php – for displaying all single posts
and so on

When you create a static page “Imprint” for your imprint, your “About us” page or something like that, you have several fields to fill in the wordpress editor.
If you set the page name “Imprint” and save that change then two other fields are automatically filled with “imprint” but can be changed:
– the permalink
– the “slug”, (in German wordpress backends its called “Titelform”), way down to the bottom of the page

This slug field is maybe NOT shown, until you check-mark it in the “Ansicht anpassen” (edit view) dropdown at the top of the page.

And here’s the trick:
If you create a template php stub and give it the name “page-imprint.php”, your Static page with slug “imprint” is beeing rendered using this stub.

In general: a static page with slug “Hallo123” is rendered by the stub file “page-Hallo123.php”, if that stub file exists. If it doesn’t exist, wordpress uses the “page.php”

So, if:

(1) If you take the page.php from the original twentyseventeen theme directory, copy it to your child theme directory and edit minor changes/adjustments in it, then ALL your pages will show those edits.

(2) If you take the page.php from the original twentyseventeen theme directory, copy it to your child theme directory and change the name to “page-imprint.php” then only your imprint will show your edits.

(3) If you take the “front-page.php” from the original twentyseventeen theme directory, copy it to your child theme directory and change the name from “front-page.php” to “page-section.php” then only a static wordpress page with the slug field set to “section” will be displayed in the frontpage style.

So I did the following:

First I took the file “front-page.php” from the original twentyseventeen theme directory, copied it to my child theme directory and changed the name from “front-page.php” to “page-section.php”. Then I created a static wordpress page with the name “Hallo!” and the the slug field set to “section”.

So this page “Hallo!” showed other pages as sections. Unfortunately you set those sections under design -> customizer -> theme options for your whole wordpress site.

So you have to disable the sectioning for your frontpage as I show at topic 2 of my post:

Once again I took the file “front-page.php” from the original twentyseventeen theme directory, copied it to my child theme directory but did NOT rename it.

And in this child theme version of the “front-page.php” I disabled the sectioning by setting the $num_sections to 0:
$num_sections = 0; // apply_filters( ‘twentyseventeen_front_page_sections’, 4 );

Ahm, I’m not sure if it’s really much clearer now… 😉

CU Martin