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How traditional themes are built - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: First Look: WordPress Full-Site Editing
How traditional themes are built
- [Instructor] A WordPress theme is used to change the design of a site, including its layout. Themes take the content and data stored by WordPress and display it in the browser. In this lesson I'd like to take a tour of how themes have historically been built for WordPress. And with that context, we can use the rest of this chapter to look at the anatomy of a block-based theme. We're going to start here at the official theme handbook on WordPress.org. And I want to highlight this part that describes what themes are made of? For starters there are only two files required to make a WordPress theme, although I've never seen one so blessedly simple in the wild. And from there, you may see a variety of file types including style, scripts or images, but the main thing you'll see our template files. These are PHP files that contain a mixture of HTML, template tags, and PHP code. Template files are contextual. So for example…