Title: Modifying index.html Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Modifying index.html * [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/) * so i know NO php and i have gotten into the world of wordpress. In blogger, we could modify things just in blogger itself using html w/o knowing anything else. I just want on my index page for the latest entries to appear with just the title and the date and then the entry. i don’t want anything else. Does anyone know what the tags are for those two things to appear. Oh and it’ll be cool to have the category in parenthesis, so it looks like this on the webpage: * This is the entry name (Category) -Date * Entry Author name | Comments * Please let me know Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297117) * I’ve been with WP nearly two years – and I still don’t know any PHP. You are not alone 🙂 * Could we have a link to your site ? We can then see the theme you are using and can get our advice exactly right for you. What you are after is very easily achieved but it might be easier with a link. * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297121) * sure…i’m just testing it out here, but if it works i plan on putting wordpress on my domain. thanks so much for your willingness to help! 🙂 Really appreciat it! * [http://www.geocities.com/shalas](http://www.geocities.com/shalas) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297126) * Two steps: Can you make a post (call it ‘Testing’) and date it back to yesterday? You can do this on the advanced edit screen. This means that we get to see two dates when we move things around which will help. * Next, can you open your ‘index.php’ which is the one in the theme folder, and copy all the code to here: [http://pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com) Then at that site click ‘Send’ at the bottom. Your code will then appear on-screen and in the address bar it will now have something like http;//pastebin.com/12345 We need that address – we can then see your index and juggle the code around to get the ideal result 🙂 * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297154) * Ok…I had removed the whole bottom half of the code b/c when I used Movabletype before a long time ago, that’s what I had done. Of course I don’t know if it was the right or the wrong thing to do but I am totally willing to follow your advise as to what is the best way to achieve this design. * Here’s the link you asked for: [http://pastebin.com/467999](http://pastebin.com/467999) * Thanks again! * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297163) * `
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* is that all that is there really ? I was expecting something like this: [http://pastebin.com/468023](http://pastebin.com/468023) * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297222) * yeah, b/c I was playing around with it b/c I have NO clue what i’m doing 🙁 Should I post the original index.html that I had backedup? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297223) * It’s okay 🙂 Hmm… you are using WordPress MU which we can’t properly support simply because most of us here do not use it – the code inside it is very different. If you had WP (not the MU version) on your own domain I can virtually guarantee we could get it perfect for you, but MU probably has so many restrictions on what you can do that it would be a battle we may not win. Could you get it on your own domain ? * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297234) * sure…i’ll post the code here as soon as it get it on my domain? just wanted to know that i’ll have some kind of support if i did install it! 🙂 Thanks! * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297317) * ok i got it up on the roxr forum but i don’t even know HOW to modify this index. html. * here’s the site: [http://monamoon23.roxr.com/](http://monamoon23.roxr.com/) * the blog should be transparent like it was at [http://www.geocities.com/shalas](http://www.geocities.com/shalas) but i can’t evven get into the body to insert the transparent tag. * I’m just really confused, b/c this is what it says on the index.html file: * * Thread Starter [monamoon23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monamoon23/) * (@monamoon23) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297327) * Anyone? Podz? come back! * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297329) * All your modifications should be done in the _theme’s_ index.php file or stylesheet. The themes are located in wp-content/themes/themename/ directories. You are using the default. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Modifying index.html’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [index](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index/) * [modifying](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/modifying/) * 11 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-indexhtml/#post-297329) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics