Specify the structure you want

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najmusseoex
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Specify the structure you want

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WordPress is a really powerful CMS, thanks to the elasticity with which it was developed it is able to adapt to a large number of situations. If you haven't seen the lesson Understanding the hierarchy of a WordPress theme yet , inside it I tried to make you understand the reasoning that is made by our platform when it finds itself having to generate a page inside the visitor's browser.

When using theme hierarchy you need to be careful about the WordPress Loop
To be honest, it is possible to create a theme with only five files , WordPress is able to generate any page list of papua new guinea consumer email using only the files: header.php, index.php, sidebar.php, footer.phpwithout forgetting to add some style to our pages thanks to style.css.

If we want to be really picky, a WordPress theme could also be created with two single files : index.php and style.css . It's true, you can do it, but I strongly advise against going down this path.

If you went to see the lesson I'm referring to, you can understand that WordPress chooses the files .phpto use based on their name. To make it clearer, let's look at some examples:

If you find yourself viewing an archive page (any archive page present in the CMS) the PHP file responsible for providing structure and recalling the contents within the database is the file archive.php. If this file is not present, the structure within . will be checked index.php.
If you are reading an article, the file that is consulted is called single.phpand, if it is not present in our theme folder, once again it will be chosen index.phpto give shape to the contents present within the article.
Same thing happens with pages. Let's say for example your visitor is reading your contact page what does WordPress do? Well it looks for the presence of the file page.phpand in its absence it will call index.php.
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