themes – Knowboard

Theme Development Standards

WordPress Themes should be coded using the following standards:

Use well-structured, error-free PHP and valid HTML. See WordPress Coding Standards.
Use clean, valid CSS. See CSS Coding Standards.
Follow design guidelines in Site Design and Layout.

Template Files

Templates are PHP source files used to generate the pages requested by visitors, and are output as HTML. Template files are made up of HTML, PHP, and WordPress Template Tags.

Let’s look at the various templates that can be defined as part of a Theme.