Title: Theme Inheritance
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme Inheritance

 *  [lpe04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lpe04/)
 * (@lpe04)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-inheritance/)
 * If a theme only has an index.php file, will all pages (archives, etc.) derive
   from this layout?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-inheritance/#post-1023705)
 * yes
 *  [t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os/)
 * (@t31os)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-inheritance/#post-1023714)
 * I found this helped when i wanted a visual idea of how the Hierarchy works..
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png](http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png)

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