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WordPress: Anatomy of a theme

WWORDPRESS THE ANATOMY OF A THEME header.php get header(): displays document header and navigation menus the loop the loop is the heart of wordpress, and it resides in the theme's template files index.php display list of post in excerpt of full-length form single.php sidebar.php display post title and content, categories and post tags get sidebar); display widgets page.php display page title and content, comments and metadata archive.php display archives: tag, category, date-based or author based footer.php 9get footer); display footer just before closing the body tag Query Posts or Page Start loop Everything between this and the endwhile gets repeated until all posts are output Endwhile the_title Start loop over all Exit or exit if queried posts have been output outputs the title of the post the loop the_date the excerpt outputs the post date outputs the post excerpt the_author the content outputs the post content outputs the post author the_category outputs the post categories style.css functions.php comments.php comments template theme styles theme functions graphicmedia comunicazione creativa www.graphicmedia.it sources: yoast.com | wp.tutsplus.com | codex.wordpress.org

WordPress: Anatomy of a theme

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The choice of theme is certainly the most important and delicate moment when you must create a site the web. Many times we rely on a Template (template), but not always able to satisfy completely our ... needs. It is not unusual to modify some parts of the theme to customize the appearance chart or add additional functionality. If you install an advanced theme can be done from the Admin Panel, otherwise you need to put the code and modify it. For this it is essential to know the basic elements of a WordPress theme. A WordPress theme consists of a folder that contains the template file. The two files absolutely needed are index.php and style.css. The first contains the basic style and theme information while index.php is the basic layout, and represents the fallback file when there is no other template files. We find header.php that show the header of the site and the navigation menu, and footer.php contains footer instructions and closes the HTML tags. Among others there are file sidebar.php template, which controls the display of the sidebar, comments.php, and comments. It is possible to have a single.php file to view a single post and a page.php file for the static page. The functions.php file handles the functionality of the theme. The loop is the core of WordPress, PHP query that communicates with WordPress and it returns the requested content, and is located in the theme's template file or in loop.php. The following infographics below will help you to better understand the relationship between files and layout. As you can see, the theme has been divided into four main sections. Each of them has a corresponding template theme files WordPress:

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