The whole process of WordPress theme creation (2): theme file composition

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Before you start making a WordPress theme, you must first understand what files the WordPress theme consists of. You must know how the WordPress program is connected to the theme files.

The following are all template files in the default folder of WordPress default theme. After looking at the picture below, you may still be confused as to what these files are for. WordPress themes are written in PHP, not pure HTML CSS, so the suffix of the template file is .php. If you want to be proficient in WordPress theme production and perfectly control your blog, it is best to be familiar with PHP programming. What if you don’t know how to program in PHP? Can’t you make a WordPress theme? That’s not the case. At least after reading this series of tutorials, you will be able to master the basic WordPress theme creation methods.

The following is the WordPress theme file hierarchy, which will tell you: When WordPress displays a specific page type, which template file will be used? Only by understanding the following theme hierarchy can you know what files you need to write for your WordPress theme.

How do you see the file hierarchy below?

Take the homepage as an example. There are two files home.php and index.php below. The WordPress program will search for these two files in sequence from your theme folder:

• If home.php is found, use home.php as the blog homepage template, even if there is index.php in your theme folder;
• If home.php is not found, use index.php as the template Home page template;
• If neither home.php nor index.php can be found, your theme will not be recognized by WordPress and is equivalent to waste.

Homepage

• home.php

• index .php

Post page:

• single-{post_type}.php - If the post type is videos (i.e. video), WordPress will look for single-videos.php (supported by WordPress 3.0 and above)

• single.php

• index. php

Page

1. Custom template - where the page is created in the WordPress backend, right sidebar You can choose a custom template for the page
2. page-{slug}.php - If the abbreviation of the page is news, WordPress will look for page-news.php (supported by WordPress 2.9 and above)
3. page-{id}.php - If the page ID is 6, WordPress will look for page-6.php
4. page.php
5. index.php

Category

• ##category-{slug}.php - If the category abbreviation is news, WordPress will look for category-news.php(WordPress Supported by version 2.9 and above)

• category-{id}.php - If the category ID is 6, WordPress will look for category-6.php

• category.php

• archive.php

• index.php

tag

• tag-{slug}.php - If the tag abbreviation is sometag, WordPress will look for tag-sometag.php

• tag-{id}.php - If the tag ID is 6, WordPress will look for tag-6.php (supported by WordPress 2.9 and above)

• tag.php

• archive.php

• index.php

Author

• author-{nicename}.php - If the author's nickname is rami, WordPress will look for author-rami.php (supported by WordPress 3.0 and above)

• author-{id}.php - If the author ID is 6, WordPress will look for author-6.php (supported by WordPress 3.0 and above)

• author. php

• archive.php

• index.php

Date Page

• date.php

• archive.php

• index.php

Search results

• search.php

• index.php

404 (Not Found) Page

• 404.php

##index.php

Attachment page

MIME_type.php - can be any MIME type (image.php, video.php, audio.php, application.php or others).
attachment.php
single.php

• index.php

Recommended study: "WordPress Tutorial"

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