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In today’s time-crunched, on-demand world of web development, online sales, and digital marketing, you need all the help you can get. Templates help.
See related post on how to setup new Rocket.net Site Templates – Introducing: Site Templates
A template is a pre-designed model or pattern that serves as a starting point for creating something new. Possibly even, something amazing. A template provides a consistent structure and format; it allows you to save time and effort by avoiding the need to start from nothing. How great is that?
Templates rock and many Rocket.net customers have already started using this new feature to build out new websites.
Absolutely not! Templates are a smart and efficient way to work. In today’s time-crunched, on-demand world of web development, online sales, and digital marketing, you need all the help you can get.
Templates are there to help you.
Think about it. You use templates all the time. Every day, in various aspects of your life and in your business, you use templates without even realizing it.
Think of templates as simplified schedules.
Templates list contexts (like “write a blog post”) to flow through, but not specific times.
You may even have a template for a typical workday. Other days might use a different template – for planning, admin, or creative projects.
Does this look familiar to you?
In our business workflow, we use a variety of specific templates to help us save time, too.
For example:
Most invoicing and writing software provides pre-designed templates you can customize with your company’s branding and specific details used in every communication.
When pitching a project to a client, you probably have a proposal template that outlines the scope of work, pricing, and terms and conditions. Simply exchanging the specifics of each client’s project within the template makes this part of your work much easier than writing proposals from scratch.
You only have to think of Canva or Figma, right?
Website templates are pre-designed layouts that help you quickly create a well-designed site. Templates could include boilerplate CSS, responsive menus – anything you extensively use for your site. They simplify web design so you can spend more time with your client – or working on specific issues elsewhere.
From contact forms to newsletters to gallery layouts to product layouts, most content-based plugins are templates. For example, WooCommerce contains template files. They are responsible for rendering the HTML markup that shapes the front end of your online store.
From the product listings and individual product pages to the shopping cart and checkout process, each content type uses a template. Templates dictate the layout, styling, and functionality of your storefront.
WordPress template files govern the visual representation and functionality of your website. They allow you to create various content types and use-case requirements.
Here are a few examples of the WordPress templates you probably use without thinking about them:
Themes establish the overall design parameters of your website. Templates play a crucial role in shaping the structure of individual pages or posts across your site.
Yes. Essentially, WordPress themes are templates. They provide a pre-designed layout and styling for your website. Most WordPress users install a theme to reduce the need for extensive customization and coding.
Themes provide the foundational structure for your website, including the layout, typography, color scheme, and other design elements. Themes can be further customized and extended with plugins and custom code to meet your specific needs.
Oh and if you’re using patterns or blocks (Gutenberg), those are templates.
Within WordPress themes, you will often find pre-designed patterns or blocks that serve as templates. Specific sections of your website, such as headers, footers, or content layouts depend on templates. Need a pricing chart? Use a pattern. You don’t need to hand-code the CSS for this anymore.
But patterns and blocks are templates and can be easily inserted and customized, saving you time and effort.
Absolutely! Many WordPress plugins offer content templates. This allows you to create pre-designed pages, posts, or custom post types with a consistent structure and formatting.
Templates are useful for creating landing pages, sales pages, or other types of content that follow a specific, reusable layout.
Yes! You can create a Site Template that includes your preferred set of plugins. This helps agencies, developers, designers, and even bloggers, who work on multiple client projects with similar requirements.
By creating a template with the necessary plugins pre-installed and configured, you streamline the setup process and ensure consistency across projects – and not just with the same six plugins either. You can use the same theme, page content, and more.
Want to save time in configuring themes and plugins? We have your back.
You have a specific deployment strategy when it comes to the plugins and/or themes you use for your website projects, right? With our new Site Templates, you can reuse your setup repeatedly on any new installs.
The best part? Site Templates are free! This is even more powerful when you’re building websites for a particular niche.
Site Templates are immediately available to all Rocket.net customers. Create as many templates as you like and use them as many times as needed, all with no additional cost.
Want white glove service? No problem. Regardless of the plan you choose, we help you migrate your website and start building your own personal brand. Need to migrate several? We got you.
Streamline your workflow by choosing a reliable, performant platform for websites of all sizes. The only question is when you’d like to get going.