You need to be more familiar with the theme files. Why? There are some benefits you’ll have if you know well the theme files. Because, you will be able to replace images on header, footer or elsewhere on a page; change a logo that appears in the browser tab (favicon), insert any ads on a particular theme, and so on.

The theme files consist of CSS, PHP, and image files. All the files form your web design or your blog display.

Typically WordPress blog’s display or theme consists of a header (top part), sidebars (can be left and/or right sides), content area, and footer (the bottom). The layout of your page is built by style.css file. The other files are header.php (for building header), sidebar.php (for sidebars), footer.php (for footer), and index.php (as a glue for header, sidebar, and footer). These are the basic files that must exist in a theme. The other files are images usually in an image folder.

If you want see the files, extract a theme zip file. Or you can also see them in the wp-content\themes\ ‘themes-name’ folder, in your webserver or on your PC (if you install WordPress on your PC). Use cPanel or FTP client program when you want to see the files in the webserver.

You can also view and even edit the files by selecting [Appearance] menu and click [Editor]. How to edit the files will be discussed in the next tutorial. We will also discuss about inserting an ad in the theme.