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Marcus Marcial
1,886 PointsHow to edit the PHP file for Posts
I hired a web developer to change the default appearance of a Post to modify the placement of text/images and content. I know a little PHP and HTML and wanted to change the template myself, but I don't know what file to edit.
Where might the template file that handles posts be located?
3 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherCheck the single.php file :)
It's possible there may be an include call to yet another file within that file, but the single.php page controls what a single blog post page looks like.
J Sherwani
248 PointsIt's difficult to answer this question without a deeper understanding of your setup. I'm happy to jump on a screen share session with you to figure this out — feel free to add me on Screenhero (http://screenhero.com) — I'm jcodehelp@gmail.com on Screenhero.
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsAnything more than CSS changes via a child theme is risky as, if the theme is updated, you'll lose the changes you've made.
Either way, you need to look in wp-content/themes/nameoftheme.
There will be all your templates. What you're going to want to look for is single.php or "custom-post-type"-single.php, possibly, and I wouldn't expect it, page.php.
They're the files that will control posts being displayed.