440 CHAPTER (Web and email hosting) 16 CHANGING THE LOOK OF
440 CHAPTER 16 CHANGING THE LOOK OF YOUR BLOG Figure 16-6. Stylesheet meta-information Template tags are small pieces of PHP code (typically one line of code) placed in your template. These tags do a variety of work. Here are just a few examples of what template tags can do: List the categories in your blog. This list includes links to make your blog display all the posts in each particular category. List your archives by month, by week, or individually. Create a calendar on your page, complete with links to stories for each day and links to move the visitor backwards and forwards through the history of your blog postings. Change the title of your web page based on the current story or current category. All these template tags produce XHTML, not colors, borders, or columns. In other words, the tags make the real content of your blog, marked up semantically, with meaning. The CSS applies the look to this page, adding the colors, positioning different elements into columns, and so on. This allows you to deliver the content in a number of ways without changing the content itself. Tip As an example of the variety of ways you can deliver the same content in very, very different ways, pay a visit to the CSS Zen Garden (http://csszengarden.com). This is a site put together to demonstrate the design capabilities of CSS. The site has hundreds of different themes in a vast range of styles from simple, business-like designs, to eastern-flavored works of art, through punk-styled graffiti-like pieces. But every single version of the site uses exactly the same HTML content! WordPress goes further than many theming and skinning systems. It can automatically use special template files in appropriate circumstances if it finds them. For example, if you are
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