Making a demo page with WordPress

[WCMiller]

Hey all. I’ve been taking a stab at writing my first tutorial for my WordPress blog, and I’ve run into a most peculiar problem. I’m not sure of the best way to create a demo page. I want the template for the demos to be rather simple (just a branding header with a link back to the article, and then a blank area for the demo itself to go in, sort of modeled on what Chris has done for the CSS-Tricks demos). The problem is that I’m drawing a blank on how best to do it. I’ve got a few ideas, but they all seem rather cludge-y, so I figured I’d ask around here. Does anyone have some advice, or know of a tutorial I could read up on?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[cybershot]

why don’t you just make a template file and call it Demo Page and then assign that page to the demo that you want to create?

[chendrix]

Definitely agree with the above. Make a custom template that displays the header, and calls the_content();

Then write all of your html code inside of the post.

Only issues I can see are styling it? (use inline styling? *shudder*)

And possibly the use of PHP. May need to get a plugin that lets you embed php into your posts.

[chendrix]

I thought of another possibility. Use a custom field for everything that would go between the

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