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Main Page

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The ninth in this series of tutorials is adding a main template page that will display selected posts by category, using the page and category slugs, order the posts acending and add a custom post header.

If we follow the steps in this tutorial we will be able to add our new template page to our WordPress theme, with conditional posts based on the category and page slug ordered asc and a nice post header section.

We will need to do the following steps, create the template page, and add styles, code to return the posts from WordPress and the post header from the options page using the WordPress call get_option().

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Layout

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Now we can see how easy it is to change things using a child theme we will be moving onto creating widgetized area in our theme and different layouts, we have likely looked at a number of premium themes that boast a number of widgetised areas, number of sidebars and number of layouts, we will be creating a child theme with a number of these features, but key to any project is planning.

In this tutorial we will be looking at what are widgetised areas, the planning of a website, different layouts, how we can use different templates for different pages.

We will decide on the quantity and names of new widgitized areas for our child theme, looking at the flexibility, building in redundancy and allowing for variances.

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