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You don’t have to be a full-on developer to make your WordPress pages – especially that all-important home page – look like whatever you want. But you do have to edit a bit of PHP. And it helps to understand how WordPress structures page elements and widget areas.<\/p>\n

I’ll show you where and how – and link you up with some snippets – you can break out of the obligatory columns-plus-header-and-footer structure to bring any sort of page layout to life. And we’ll do it in two different theme frameworks: The Genesis framework and Automattic’s own Underscores starter theme.<\/p>\n

And, who knows? Maybe after you get comfortable with editing these three files, you’ll decide you want to become a coding rockstar!<\/p>\n

Speaker slides can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/marybaum4\/three-files-unlimited-layouts-wcstl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to be a full-on developer to make your WordPress pages – especially that all-important home page – look like whatever you want. But you do have to edit a bit of PHP. And it helps to understand … Continue reading Three files, unlimited layout options: The designer’s guide to total creative freedom (Advanced)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8210271,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1393664400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[416931],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[254733],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-457338","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-user-ii"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"March 1, 2014","time":"9:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"416931","slug":"mary-baum","name":"Mary Baum","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/mary-baum\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/457338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8210271"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/457338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567948,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/457338\/revisions\/567948"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/416931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=457338"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=457338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}