WordPress: How to Create the Theme Header? Part 2
The topic this week is on building a theme for WordPress, it is very interesting and allow us to display the pages of our blog / site that we want to show at any point of our template and complete the process of customization of header the theme that we had already started last week.
In this tutorial we will create pages for the blog and we will ensure that they are displayed in the desired location immediately below the header of the blog that we made in class last week. Of course nothing prevents you from placing the list of pages at any other point of the template.
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WordPress: How to Create the Theme Header? Part 1
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