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Thank you so much kmessinger! I was feeling a little overwhelmed by the php and the comfortable familiarity I have with CSS and xhtml. I think I can muddle along through this now with you direction. Thank you for your patience. ??

Hmmm…maybe I’m not explaining myself well. When I downloaded the theme design I wanted, there were a number of files associated with that folder – most were php files and there were also CSS files. I have edited the CSS files to my liking and now want to go into the XHTML files which show up in the online source code but are nowhere to be found in my theme folder. What I’ve done so far can be viewed here https://clearlygreendesign.com/blog/ . As you can see, the blog title is overtop of my graphics and the footer indicates “your name here”. I also want to add more links – more than just “home” and “about”. What I need is access to those xhtml files so I can customize the code for my purposes. I don’t know how php works – it’s like reading a foreign language with an indistinguishable alphabet to me. When I look at the index.php file, I see nowhere where I can edit xhtml. I need the index.xhtml file because I understand that code – I speak that language in other words. I see it online – it shows up there, but where is it?

My problem is that php is like looking at Chinese to me. I have no comprehension of either language. When I look at the online source code for my WP page, I see xhtml. That would be the only file I would be comfortable working with. I don’t want to touch the php file because I don’t understand it (and don’t really care to either – I’m a designer, not a coder). If the XHTML shows up online, why doesn’t it show up in my theme folder? I’m getting the feeling that WP is for hard core coders and not people like myself. I really only want WP as an extension of my current website to place email newsletter content but would I be better off just designing new pages for that content instead?