Editing the front page

  • qdechery

    (@qdechery)


    16 years ago

    I’m still a big newb working with wordpress, although I do have some experience working with html coding.
    My question is, that I can’t seem to figure out how to change around the front page in any significant way once I’ve selected a theme. How can I get directly into the html coding of the front page, or any page for that matter? I want to add some google analytic script, and other things in the future. Any help is hugely apprecaited. Thanks

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years ago

    start here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

    WP uses various files to generate your various pages. puts em together to display certain things.

    Often your front page is a combo of header.php, index.php, sidebar.php, and footer.php

    for pages, sub page.php for index.php

    You customize the various files to add/change things

    for totally customized pages you make a template
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

    most appearance is controlled through the css (usually style.css)

    And…just for info, analytics code usually goes into footer.php, just above the <?php wp_footer(); ?> code

    verification stuff you get from google, etc, usually goes into header.php

    Thread Starter qdechery

    (@qdechery)

    16 years ago

    thanks that helps a bit, but I’m still quite confused as to how I can just get into the html of each thing (like header, index, footer). Do I need to make a whole new template to do things like that? I can’t get into the header or footer of a given theme’s design?

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years ago

    yeah…

    in your admin area

    appearance ->editor

    Thread Starter qdechery

    (@qdechery)

    16 years ago

    Right, and I placed the google analytics code into the bottom of it, but it doesnt show up when i veiw my site’s source code. Is that normal?

    Thread Starter qdechery

    (@qdechery)

    16 years ago

    oh nvm, i just noticed all the different options on the sidebar under that menu. thanks a lot. 😀 sorry to have used ur time

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