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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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We created the theme and added the header and navigation bar. All of this stuff on the page is now dynamic and integrated with WordPress, but this is all just static HTML.

Let's go back to our index.php page and go down to where we have the container content div, and we have different blog posts. We have three article tags with blog posts; we will delete two out of the three.

Then we will cut the paragraphs down and make it much shorter just so we can get it all in the page or in view. We want to write in this main block div, and we want to create our post loop.

First, we'll have to check for posts, and for that, we will enter if(have_posts),and then we have to end it after the ending </article> tag. We will put an else statement as well. If there are no posts, then we will enter php echo, with the wpautop() function, where we can put the text...

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