A Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy (2021 Edition)

If you want to customize themes or build new ones from scratch, it’s important to understand how the WordPress template hierarchy works. ✅ This tutorial has everything you need to get started...

First and foremost, this WordPress system helps keep everything organized. Once you know what all the theme template files are, what they do, and how they’re prioritized, you’ll be able to alter almost every aspect of how your WordPress website looks.

In this video, we’ll explain what the WordPress template hierarchy is and how it works. Then we’ll provide a full breakdown of the template files involved in each type of WordPress page (including a cheat sheet for reference), to help you use them to your advantage. 😉
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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:56 An Introduction to the WordPress Template Hierarchy
2:47 How the WordPress Template Hierarchy Works
4:22 Where to Locate and Change WordPress Template Files
5:49 A Breakdown of the WordPress Template Hierarchy by Page Type
10:05 Where Child Themes Fit into the WordPress Template Hierarchy
11:03 Using WordPress Template Tags for Theme Development

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📙A Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy

📊Template Hierarchy (WordPress Codex)

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[salehhassan]

Before I see the video. One comment. Very nice and simple color choices that make me feel relaxed and comfortable to continue see the video. Great quality.

[tmichellemoore]

Excellent tutorial that explained the template hierarchy very clearly. This is the key to learning full site editing.

[mohamadhosienahmadi]

Hello, the training was excellent
Please provide a template design tutorial that is compatible with Elementor

[sanjeev]

Good video. Please make such videos more.