WordPress Sage Theme Framework Documentation Translation - Theme Template Structure and Extension Methods

Sage's theme templates are built on HTML5 Boilerplate and support ARIA roles and hNews microdata format. The theme contains files that can be extended like a normal WordPress template structure. The theme's main template files are listed below.

404.php

404 Error Page

base.php

All template files are extended on this file.

index.php

Archive pages (blog pages, category archives, author archives and other archive pages)

page.php

single page

single.php

Single article page

template-custom.php

Example of a customized page template

followingtemplates/The content template file contained in the is where most of our customizations are made.

comments.php

Commentary module

content-page.php

page.phpHowever, the content template included in the single page

content-single.php

Content templates included in a single post pagesingle.php

content.php

index.phpContent templates included in the home page.

entry-meta.php

content-single.phpThe metadata template contained in the

footer.php

base.phpThe footer template included in the

head.php

 base.phpThe HTML contained in the

header.php

base.phpThe top-of-page template included in the

page-header.php

The header template included in the page.

searchform.php

Search box template

sidebar.php

base.phpThe sidebar template included in the

Extended Sage Theme Templates

Even though the Sage theme uses its own method of wrapping the theme, normal WordPress template inheritance can still be used, for example:

• make a copy of index.php because of author.php, you can then create a new author archive page.
• make a copy ofindex.php because of home.phpThen you can create a customized home page, provided you don't have a static home page set up inside the reading settings.
• make a copy of index.php because of archive-gallery.php can then be used for galleryThe article type creates a new archive page.
• make a copy of page.php because of front-page.phpThen you can create a new custom static home page.
• make a copy of page.php because of page-about.php It is then possible to create a new custom page template for the page with the alias about.

The theme wrapper documentation describes in more detail how to create a new base.phpfile, but if you need to customize it based on an existing theme base.php, copy base.php as base-.phpThat's all it takes. Alternatively, you can also add a new file to thebase.phpThe customization of base.php is achieved by using conditional functions in the