Title: Home Page Code
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Home Page Code

 *  [shaithis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaithis/)
 * (@shaithis)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-code/)
 * I want to add a nested div to the home page but don’t know which wordpress file
   I need to edit.
 * Help appreciated.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [michael.mariart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmariart/)
 * (@michaelmariart)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-code/#post-3144965)
 * It coudl be in any one of up to 7 different files, depending on your theme, and
   how your site is set up. Of course, if your theme is set up in a different way
   then ‘standard” it could also be in a few other files as well as something stored
   in your database, so it’s going to be very hard to give you any idea of where
   to start looking.
 * As a starting point though, have a look at the [template heirarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png)
   to see how the template files work in with each other.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-code/#post-3144967)
 * Even knowing the hierarchy, it’s hard to determine which template is used on 
   any specific portion of a page. To help me out, I resorted to adding HTML comments
   containing the template name (outside of PHP blocks, after backing up the original
   template files) at the top of any potentially used template. (and bottom if necessary)
 * By examining the HTML source generated, it’s fairly easy to see which and where
   each template comes in at various places along the page by where my comments 
   appear.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Home Page Code’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-code/#post-3144967)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics