Blog index page

  • roual

    (@roual)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve created a custom theme from scratch (as in not copying another one) for a friend of mine, and she’s asked me to put a blog index page in for her, and after several hours of searching for a decent tutorial, I can’t figure out how to do it.

    I’ll admit, I’m a WordPress newbie, so I’m probably making some very basic mistakes, but at this point, I’m completely confused.

    The site has a static homepage as well as other pages, but currently no posts aside from a test one.

    Any pointers in the right direction would be fantastic. I don’t want to post any current code because quite frankly I’d rather scrap the whole lot and start from scratch.

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  • CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Take a look at the Montezuma theme. Since you have experience creating a theme, I think you’ll appreciate how you go about customizing this particular theme. Instead of a limited set of options, you use virtual templates and CSS files. So if you want to change the appearance of the blog page, you edit the virtual index.php template (and/or the postformat.php subtemplate). If you want to edit the appearance of the single post page, you edit the virtual single.php file. Creating virtual custom templates is also very easy. Add widget areas to the header, footer, however many sidebars that you want. Plus it’s responsive, so the site you create will look good on mobile devices. Good support on the BytesForAll forum.

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