Creating a wordpress page template with editable sections

Question

I want to create a page template that has different editable sections - as in this question - How do I create different editable sections within a wordpress page?

But the answer that I'd like to follow has a link to a non existent page - http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#File_Folders

I'd really like to create a template that displays the content of other pages as sections, as the Twentyseventeen front page does (but on another page)

Could someone post a link to that info, or advise me here?

Thanks

Vik

Answer 1

I think, it's the page that you're looking for: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/

Page templates display your site’s dynamic content on a page, e.g., posts, news updates, calendar events, media files, etc. You may decide that you want your homepage to look a specific way, that is quite different to other parts of your site. Or, you may want to display a featured image that links to a post on one part of the page, have a list of latest posts elsewhere, and use a custom navigation. You can use page templates to achieve these things.