What is the difference between WordPress Themes and WordPress Templates?
The short answer is this:
WordPress templates define the structure of your pages and posts while a WordPress theme defines the entire structure of your website.
Your header and footer design, color settings, typography, homepage, everything is generated by the code in your active WordPress theme.
In this video, I will show you some WordPress template examples and themes that give you even more options to choose from.
Let me start with the default theme of WordPress, which is now Twenty Twenty.
Now, let me install another theme and see if I can get more templates and options.
This is Neve, which is made by Themeisle, the owner of this channel.
If I edit the first blog post, you can see that there is no post attribute tab but I can access the post settings which allows getting full control over my template.
I can set up Contained or Full-Width template, choose to display the sidebar on the left or right, or I can even deactivate it completely.
So, a WordPress theme controls everything on your website while a WordPress template is for pages, and posts as well as things like sections and widgets, if you are using a page-builder.
Each WordPress theme comes with unique templates and some of them deliver a great collection of starter sites that you can use to quickly create a full WordPress website in minutes.
Astra, for example, is one of the best examples which has an outstanding collection of starter sites.
Ocean WP, Colibri, Hestia all of these themes are filled with great demo content which you can import with just a couple of clicks.
I hope this video was helpful and now you understand what is the difference between WordPress themes and templates.
Let me know what is your favorite WordPress theme in the comments section below.
I would like to see some websites designed with these themes and I will feature the best ones in a new video about WordPress website examples.
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Which WordPress theme are you using on your WordPress website and why?
Do you find templates useful?
You might like to work fast in your daily life but when making a tutorial it doesn't help your viewers at all
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I give it a big like because of the short answer mentioned at the first 30 seconds!!! Thanks!
@RobertPeterK
I want to build a test/education website where a user puts in their credit card, gets an ID and logs in, does some lessons and gets a certificate at the end. Where can I buy a templet like that?
Thaaaaaanks Bro ! <3
Thank you. Helpful video and well presented.
Just got WordPress and hate it, so difficult by comparison to others.
Wtf i just watched
This video was so helpfull for beginer.
Thanks. Information is very useful.
what is the difference between html template and wordpress theme?
The most confusing video i have ever seen…moving to fast and carrying the audience along. Plus the Accent just makes it impossible to understand what He's trying to say.
Hi I am using WP with a few addon's but am going to redo the whole lot after watching this
This video was so helpfull for me.. thanks alot 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm looking to build a magazine style page with lots of photography.
Any WP themes which are particularly smartphone friendly ? Thanks.
I love OCEANWP which can fulfill my each and every need.
The video ALMOST clarifies the differences between a WP theme and template, but still confounds and confuses several concepts.
In your writing you start to clarify things with the two sentences:
1) "So, a WordPress theme controls everything on your website while a WordPress template is for pages, and posts as well as things like sections and widgets, if you are using a page-builder."
2) "Each WordPress theme comes with unique templates and some of them deliver a great collection of starter sites that you can use to quickly create a full WordPress website in minutes."
However, the video over-explains and confuses websites and website templates, blogs and blog templates, pages and page templates and page builders, and more without explaining how these concepts each relate to the WP core engine.
Please simplify the explanations by fully explaining these concepts individually, then show how they relate to the big picture.
Thanks Robert for this amazing video.