The last two sheets that you should know about are the sidebar.php and the footer.php. I don’t have much to add to these sheets since my theme allows for a fair amount of customization without playing around in the code and for the sidebar, since widgets are very flexible. That being said, you should still…
The next sheet we will look into is the “single post” sheet. The name can vary based on the theme, but the actual name will be “single.php”. In this sheet you will see the layout for every post (not page) on your site. Depending on your theme there will probably be code in here already,…
The next sheet that you need to know about will be called something like “header” or “header-main” or something like that. This sheet runs on the top of every single page on your site. Examples of why you would use this is for Google Analytics code (if you aren’t using the plugin), code for a…
Before we begin I am giving you an extreme warning here. The editor can be a scary place, one mistake can take down an entire website. There are horror stories that someone deleted one line of code, added something in the wrong place, or just didn’t know what they were doing and broke their entire…