Help: Simple template

  • Hello,

    I have been using WordPress for blogging for awhile and I am building a new site and wanted to try and use it as a news posting system.

    I’ve looked at some of the template building material and the like but PhP is way over my head. All I need is a layout that has a black background with white test. Don’t need a header, or sidebar, or footer, just the background and text.

    Could anyone give me a hand?

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  • why dont you just use the default theme, make a copy of it and adapt the css?

    maybe you could start here:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Lessons#Customizing_Templates

    Thread Starter TT

    (@tt)

    I’ve looked through that, but I can’t figure out which parts of the code are used to do what. If someone could let me know which parts I could delete just to have the main body, no sidebar, no header, no footer, then I could figure out the rest from there.

    In /classic/header.php delete everything between the rap and content divs (leave the divs themselves in!):

    <div id="rap">
    {remove everything}
    <div id="content">

    In /classic/footer.php delete

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?> and

    <?php get_footer(); ?>

    This leaves a small footer with a mention of WordPress. You could remove that by removing

    <p class="credit">{and everything between}</p>

    You could also shop around for themes that are called simple or minimal, f.i. at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes/Theme_List

    Regards,

    Karel

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