WordPress theme customization healing-touch theme

Question

I have downloaded a theme from WordPress and I have created a child theme on this. Now I have style.css for this.

My requirement is to customize this as per my need. I am facing issues on this. What is the best way to customize the theme.

For example, by default Archives and Category links are shown in my page. I want to remove this. Also I want alter the layout of the page. How to do this . My theme name is healing-touch.(https://wordpress.org/themes/healing-touch/)

Thanks.

Answer 1

To change the layout of the page you need to find its template page file. try searching in: your-website-name -> wp-content -> themes -> your-theme-name.

Search for the html/php file of the page you want to change, usually its called: page-home.php / page.php.

If you do not have ftp access to these files you can search for them in your wp-admin dashboard: appearance -> editor -> home-page.php.

It looks like in this theme the Archives and Category are sidebar widgets. In order to remove them you can go to the left menu in your wp-admin dashboard: appearance -> Widgets. then just drag the unwanted widgets from the sidebar box.

If they do not appear there search in: yourwebsitename -> wp-content -> themes -> healing-touch -> sidebar.php (or in the dashboard: appearance -> editor -> sidebar.php ) and delete the parts you don't want to use.