Pages vs. Templates in Gutenberg?

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**Some Background…**

Hi, I have a question that may seem a bit silly, but I hope you can help me understand. In the past, I’ve created and maintained my fair share of WordPress sites – different types of templates and most recently elementor (but this was already 2 years ago). Currently I still work in Marketing but my company has a Webflow site.

A friend of mine is starting a business and I offered her to help her with the website. I wanted to try working with the Gutenberg editor as it is native to WordPress with the new plugins, and currently we’re working with the Twenty Twenty Three theme. Now, that being said, my question:

**My Question:**
With this new editor, I seem to just NOT figure out how pages and templates relate. I set up a “Services” page in the visual editor, then realised what I had created was a template. However, for it to show up in my menu, I need to create a page by the same name and select the corresponding template.

So currently I mainly work by creating custom templates and then linking them to pages. It feels like I am doing something wrong here. The page remains empty, but when I do paste some text in there (e.g. a Lore Ipsum), it doesn’t show up at all, it still displays the template.

If this is the way it’s supposed to be, that’s fine, but I feel like I am just doing something wrong in terms of workflow. Do I only design e.g. headers/covers in the template, and then the body on the “Page”? If so, do I need to drag in a specific block that actually displays the page content?

I hope you can help me understand or direct me to a tutorial that covers this (I did a quick search but didn’t see anything)

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