How do we know which assembly line a given bundle will go down? With the WordPress template hierarchy. Putting our posts through index.php will result in a webpage that looks one way putting it through home.php, archive.php, or page.php will give very different results.
However, the theme provides a lot of possible lines to send those posts down: our different PHP templates. In this chapter, we’re in the stage of the production process where a bundle of posts has been fetched out of the warehouse (the database), and are all ready to be assembled and made to display beautifully by our assembly line, the WordPress theme. Learning this hierarchy will let you pinpoint which of your webpages will use which template.Īs we work through this chapter, remember the following analogy: WordPress is a factory that processes raw material, posts, into finished products, webpages. The template hierarchy follows a defined order set in WordPress itself.The WordPress template hierarchy determines which PHP template files will be used to construct a given webpage on your site, based on the type of post content requested: for example, whether the webpage displays a Page, a Post, or an archive of many Posts.
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