Title: Help: Simple template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help: Simple template

 *  [TT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tt/)
 * (@tt)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-simple-template/)
 * Hello,
 * I have been using WordPress for blogging for awhile and I am building a new site
   and wanted to try and use it as a news posting system.
 * I’ve looked at some of the template building material and the like but PhP is
   way over my head. All I need is a layout that has a black background with white
   test. Don’t need a header, or sidebar, or footer, just the background and text.
 * Could anyone give me a hand?

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 *  [megolla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megolla/)
 * (@megolla)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-simple-template/#post-264413)
 * why dont you just use the default theme, make a copy of it and adapt the css?
 * maybe you could start here:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons#Customizing_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons#Customizing_Templates)
 *  Thread Starter [TT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tt/)
 * (@tt)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-simple-template/#post-264775)
 * I’ve looked through that, but I can’t figure out which parts of the code are 
   used to do what. If someone could let me know which parts I could delete just
   to have the main body, no sidebar, no header, no footer, then I could figure 
   out the rest from there.
 *  [Karel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karel/)
 * (@karel)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-simple-template/#post-264776)
 * In /classic/header.php delete everything between the rap and content divs (leave
   the divs themselves in!):
 * `<div id="rap">`
    {remove everything} `<div id="content">`
 * In /classic/footer.php delete
 * `<?php get_sidebar(); ?>` and
 * `<?php get_footer(); ?>`
 * This leaves a small footer with a mention of WordPress. You could remove that
   by removing
 * `<p class="credit">`{and everything between}`</p>`
 * You could also shop around for themes that are called simple or minimal, f.i.
   at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List)
 * Regards,
 * Karel

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