WordPress Theme's Explained
- What Is a WordPress Theme and How Does It Work?
- WordPress uses themes as a way to customize the appearance of a WordPress website. This could include changing the default layout of pages, plus typography, color and other design elements. When you first create a WordPress site, it will come with a default theme installed. Some themes allow you to access more details than other options. Picking a theme for a WordPress website is very critical step. It can make your website more attractive, easier to use, and improve visitor engagement. There are thousands of free and premium WordPress themes available for you to use.
- What is the difference between a WordPress Theme and a Template?
- A Theme controls the overall look and function of your WordPress website. It is made up of stylesheets, scripts, images and templates. All these files work together to make up the Theme and help your website run. A Template is used to control a page or part of a page. A Theme might have a Template for the Header, Footer, Sidebar or comments section of a webpage. So Theme might include a Template that tells the website to display a companies contact information in the footer of every page in your website. The Theme would have a different Template telling it to put the website menu in the upper right hand corner of the header on every page.
