Title: About the index.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# About the index.php

 *  [bubbles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubbles/)
 * (@bubbles)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-indexphp/)
 * Hi, um, I’m pretty new with this Word press. I’ve installed it already but now
   I want to customize it, use my own layout but I’m not sure which parts that I
   can delete and which that I can’t. Can anyone tell me which parts of the codes
   must be included to ensure that my blog will work. And can I start on a new database
   and then combine with another one later?? Cos I have some other old posts in 
   another host and I want to shift them over, only I have got the backup for the
   old database yet.
    Thanks

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 *  [abhi3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abhi3/)
 * (@abhi3)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-indexphp/#post-75948)
 * hi!
    just don’t delete the PHP codes in index.php. you can play around with the
   css (for new template). also you can re-position the PHP scripts for comments,
   posts etc. what i advise is that don’t delete any PHP code about the </head> 
   tag.
 *  [vitalis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitalis/)
 * (@vitalis)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-indexphp/#post-75950)
 * this will come in handy 😉
    [http://wiki.wordpress.org/IndexStructure](http://wiki.wordpress.org/IndexStructure)
   [http://blog.nuclearmoose.ca/wp-docs/wp-layout-explained.htm](http://blog.nuclearmoose.ca/wp-docs/wp-layout-explained.htm)
   commented index.php [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/index.phps](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/index.phps)

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