What They Are: #

Template Parts are reusable sections of a website, such as headers, footers, and navigation bars, that can be applied across multiple pages or templates. They serve as building blocks for your website’s layout, allowing you to maintain consistency throughout your site without having to manually update each individual page. When you modify a template part, the changes are automatically reflected across all the pages where that template part is used.

Template Parts are a key component of Full Site Editing (FSE), giving you complete control over global elements while ensuring design consistency. They can be used for common elements like headers, footers, and sidebars but can also be customised for other repetitive design features, such as promotional banners or call-to-action sections.

How to Use and Customise Template Parts #

Template Parts in WordPress allow you to design key sections like headers, footers, and sidebars once, and reuse them across multiple pages or templates, ensuring consistency and saving time. With the LSX Design Theme, you also gain access to pre-built, fully responsive template parts, designed for easy customisation and integration into your site.

Steps to Create, Customise, and Manage Template Parts: #

• Open the Site Editor: Navigate to Appearance > Editor in your WordPress dashboard to launch the Site Editor.

• Access Template Parts: In the Site Editor, head to the Patterns section and select Template Parts. From here, you can view existing template parts or create new ones.
• Choose or Create a Template Part:
  • Modify Existing Template Parts: Select a template part like a header or footer, and customise it with elements like navigation menus, logos, or CTAs. Any changes will be applied globally across your site.
  • Create New Template Parts: Click to create a new template part from scratch, such as a new navigation bar or promotional banner. Name your part and begin adding blocks to it.
• Customising the Layout: Use the Block Editor to customise your template part by adding and arranging blocks. For example, you can add a logo, navigation menu, and search bar to a header, or social media icons and contact info to a footer.

• Apply Template Parts Globally: Once your template part is designed and customised, it can be applied across multiple pages or templates. Any future edits you make to the part will automatically update everywhere it’s used, ensuring consistency across your site.

For further details, visit the official WordPress documentation on Template Parts.mentation on Template Parts.

LSX Design Theme Integration: #

The LSX Design Theme takes full advantage of template parts by offering pre-built, optimised sections for key site elements like headers, footers, and navigation bars. These template parts are designed to be responsive, flexible, and easy to customise, ensuring that your site looks polished across all devices.

Key LSX Template Parts: #

• Header Template: A fully responsive header template that can include your site’s logo, navigation menu, and call-to-action buttons. Customise it to include additional elements such as search bars or login links.
• Footer Template: Pre-built footers that feature contact details, social media links, copyright text, and other site-wide elements. Modify them to suit your branding or add custom widgets.
• Navigation Bars: LSX Design includes sleek, optimised navigation bar templates that are easy to customise with menus, links, and even icons, allowing users to navigate your site effortlessly.
• Hero Section Template: Use pre-built hero sections as reusable template parts to create consistency in your website’s visual style and messaging.

Benefits of Using LSX Design Template Parts: #

• Time-Saving: LSX provides pre-designed template parts that can be instantly applied and customised. This allows you to build your site faster while maintaining a professional design.
• Customisable: Each template part in the LSX Design Theme can be customised to fit your brand. Modify elements like typography, colours, and block arrangements while keeping the overall structure intact.
• Responsive and Optimised: All LSX template parts are built to be fully responsive, ensuring your design looks great on all screen sizes. They are also optimised for performance, reducing load times and improving the user experience.

Benefits of Using Template Parts #

Template Parts are essential for building and managing consistent layouts across your WordPress site. By using template parts, you can streamline the design process and maintain a professional, cohesive look throughout your website.

1. Reusable Design Elements: Template parts allow you to create key site elements, like headers, footers, or sidebars, once and reuse them across multiple pages. This not only saves time but also ensures that your site maintains a consistent design throughout. When you update a template part, the changes are automatically reflected across all the pages where it’s used.
2. Design Consistency: Template parts help standardise your site’s design, ensuring that headers, footers, and other common sections look uniform across all pages. This design consistency is important for user experience, as it provides seamless navigation and reinforces your brand identity across the site.
3. Global Changes: Updating a template part once will automatically apply those changes to all instances of that part across your site. This significantly reduces maintenance time, as you won’t need to manually update each individual page.
4. Easy to Manage: The WordPress Site Editor makes managing template parts simple. You can modify existing template parts or create new ones without needing to touch any code. The drag-and-drop functionality allows for easy customisation and refinement of your design.
5. Design Flexibility: Template parts give you the flexibility to build and modify key sections of your site, like headers, footers, and promotional sections, without needing to adjust each page individually. This lets you focus on designing high-impact areas of your site and ensures efficient site management.
6. LSX Design Theme Optimisation: The LSX Design Theme enhances the functionality of template parts by offering pre-built, fully responsive designs. These template parts are customisable and optimised for performance, ensuring that your site runs smoothly and looks great on all devices. With LSX Design, you can speed up your site-building process while maintaining a professional, polished design.

For more information on how to best utilise template parts within the LSX Design Theme, check the official WordPress Template Parts documentation.the official WordPress documentation.