My WordPress Blog

As you may have noticed, I have spend a bit of time redesigning and retooling my blog.

I have decided to hook on to a well known software called WordPress.  It makes posting and maintaining a blog easy.  The previous version of this blog was created on my own and decided that reinventing the wheel was not such a good idea.

I would recommend this software to anyone who wants a fully-customizable blog without the limitations of BlogSpot and other free hosts out there.  It takes a bit of getting used to but It is worth it in the long haul.

Below I have listed a few WordPress files and their purpose to get those of you interested a bit of a start.

Required Files
index.php – controls the functionality of your blog
style.css – contains all the styles that make your blog pretty to the human eye

Optional Files
single.php – the template when a single blog post is shown
author.php – the template when a particular authors articles are shown
header.php – the header of all files within the site – called in files by the function get_header()
footer.php – works similar as header

This is just a little taste of the file structure of a WordPress blog.  If this is a topic that interests you please leave a comment, and I will take that as a vote for more future posts on this issue.

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Written by Brenley Dueck