For a Complete Beginner, Where Are All My Folders?

  • I am trying to display all of my posts in a grid lay-out. My site is only letting me display 6 posts in a grid, and the rest of the posts are still appearing as full articles.

    I am completely new, not only to WordPress, but to creating sites and using code at all. I’ve been trying to do research to figure out my problem, and according to this site: https://pwdtechnology.com/create-grid-view-home-page-template-twenty-fourteen-theme/, I need to create a Child Theme.

    So I started googling how to create a child theme. Everywhere tells me to start by creating a new theme folder. But where do I do this?? I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but I have no idea where to go to access these folders, let alone create a new one. Please help!

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  • are you read the full instruction? You will create a child theme folder in wp-content/themes folder. Then you’ll add the style.css, functions.php file. If you need any other file then you’ll create them and upload in your child theme folder.

    Thread Starter snd032

    (@snd032)

    Yes, I read the full instructions, but I don’t even know where wp-content/themes folder is.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Your hosting providers will be able to identify where this folder is for you

    In order to create a new theme folder you need to use a program like Filezilla to connect to your host via ftp.

    Ftp stands for file transfer protocol. If you log on to your hosting provider account you will see on their menu a way to create an ftp account. Then download a program like filezilla (there are a lot of them). You will use the newly created ftp username and password to make a connection with your filezilla software. (I use a Mac and have a program called Fetch instead of filezilla).

    It helps to keep asking questions and to read as many tutorials as your can. Be patient. I was once where you are and I had to ask the same questions and one of the ways I coped was to start over and do it again when it didn’t work the first time.

    Cheers, Stacy

    Thread Starter snd032

    (@snd032)

    thank you!! you’re the only person who really knows what I meant by “complete beginner.”

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