Title: Basic WordPress Theme
Last modified: October 21, 2020

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# Basic WordPress Theme

 *  [Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grahamuk33/)
 * (@grahamuk33)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-wordpress-theme/)
 * Are there any very basic example themes using WordPress 5.5.1 best practices?
   
   I am interested in creating templates that use pagination for the following: 
   category.php author.php search.php
 * What best practices would need to go in function.php
 * Before anyone suggests reading the WordPress.org Theme Handbook, that is what
   I have been trying to read. I have found the manual at the stage I am at too 
   difficult to understand.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-wordpress-theme/#post-13563401)
 * Take a look at was the base “blank” theme for WP for several years, [https://github.com/automattic/_s](https://github.com/automattic/_s)
 * You can use its files as a tutorial for what you want to do.
 * To see how it’s handled in the lastest themes, look at [https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyone](https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyone)
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 *  Thread Starter [Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grahamuk33/)
 * (@grahamuk33)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-wordpress-theme/#post-13563503)
 * Thanks for replying Steven.
 * I can’t see the category.php in the github files. I am looking for code to display
   all my posts in a list, with pagination showing 5-10 posts per page.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-wordpress-theme/#post-13568125)
 * When category.php is not supplied by the theme, archive.php is used. The default
   queries in WP typically are setup to handle pagination. Your theme just needs
   to provide proper links to adjacent pages of post listings. You can see on the
   archive.php template this is done by calling the_posts_navigation().

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