Title: Create a Home Page using WordPress Theme Elements?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Create a Home Page using WordPress Theme Elements?

 *  [farmboymac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farmboymac/)
 * (@farmboymac)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-home-page-using-wordpress-theme-elements/)
 * I’m not a .php guy, but I am starting to learn how to modify a WP theme. I want
   to skin a home page with many of the elements contained within my /wp-content/
   themes/index.php file, but I’m not sure how everything needs to relate in order
   to modify the page. I want to keep the #header and #footer, but I want the #content
   area to be blank so I can input my own info. I also don’t want any #sidebar navigation
   items on the home page.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-home-page-using-wordpress-theme-elements/#post-298197)
 * Here’s the outline.
 * Create a blank index.php (it cannot be .html)
    The very top of that file must
   be `<?php include('path/to/wp-blog-header.php'); ?> Then you could have includes
   for where you wanted the includes for each section.

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