I thought to myself, "hey, you're having all these problems with your layout, just do as you advise others and find a theme that matches the look you want and then modify it to be your own." This is all good, but there are Theme Authors out there who are adding modules and changing some basic structure things and I'm confused.
Kubrick calls for the header and then has the Loop in the index.php which allows you to modify if you want to see the whole post in the main page or an excerpt in an IF/ELSE statement. When you click on the link to the post, it calls upon the IF/ELSE statement to show the single.php with the post.
In another theme I'm looking at, it doesn't seem to allow you to do an excerpt at all, just the whole post. So I think it will be easy to just change the Loop. No doing. There isn't a "Loop" as I'm used to seeing in Kubrick and others. It just calls for the post.php file, something new to me, and then does stuff from there. I thought this might replace the single.php, but it doesn't.
Let's see if I can explain it right. The index lists this:
<?php if ($posts) { ?>
<?php foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php require('post.php');?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
There is no option for single.php or excerpt because there is no <?php the_content(); ?>. That sits in the post.php but there is no clear loop with options other than "if it ain't there, go to page not found".
The single.php looks like the index.php, with all the doctype, head info and everything, but it also features the require post.php.
Where did the Loop go that includes the content?
Now, I'm not saying that this author is right or wrong. I just want to know where the parts and pieces are.
The template I'm referring to that has the different structure is No Limits.
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