WordPress Learning Challenge (Part 4)

To start coding we must know what we want, for our example we coding a simple blogging theme, we start by home page, header section, this section contain title and site description.

let’s go, in our theme folder wp-challenge, add header.php file like this:

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open header.php and add this code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
    <header >
	    <h1><?php bloginfo( 'name' );?></h1>
        <p><?php bloginfo( 'description')?></p>
    </header>

We will just explain WordPress functions.

<?php language_attributes(); ?> Displays the language attributes for the <html> tag. The possible language attributes are dir (text direction).
<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?> Displays the “Encoding for pages and feeds” set in Settings > Reading.
<?php bloginfo( 'name' );?> Displays the “Site Title” set in Settings > General.
<?php bloginfo( 'description');?> Displays the “description” set in Settings > General.

that’s all important stuff , in header section.

Now include the header.php file in the index.php to displaying. by using this code:

<?php 
    get_header()
?>

the final result

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I hope this article gave you a clear overview of how to create header section for WP theme, and that you found it useful.

If you have a question you can leave it in a comment.