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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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Different post formats

Let's take a look at a few different things now. We'll look at post types or post formats. Right now, if we look at our theme, we have just basically one kind of post, and it's just a standard blog post. We can also have things, such as galleries, links, images, and quotes status updates, and we can format these different types of posts in different ways. We will now see how to do that, how to add these to our theme. Also, we'll look at a function called get_ template_part(), which allows us to stop repeating ourselves. For instance, if we look at our index page, we have while (have_posts()), and then we're just outputting our post. We observe the same thing in the archive, in search.php, and so on. So we want something that's going to stop us from repeating ourselves over and over. I know that each of these files have minor...

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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects
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