Where are the original .php files located (or should be located) for my newly-created custom posts?

@Mark Christiansen, thanks for wording this question much better than I had. I also feel as if downloading the files from the video downloads would be skipping some important step, but for the sake of continuing, I'm going to use the downloaded files. I also followed along with the video, but I still don't see the files art.php, content-art.php, single-art.php.

@Sean T. Unwin, thanks for your response, though I'm not sure if I fully understand where those custom post files should be located; they are not in the folder (on the server or working directory) for the child theme I'm using, as it showed in the video.

If you have followed along with the video, you should have art.php, content-art.php, single-art.php in your working directory and/or server. Following that you would have created an 'Art` page from within the WP Admin area and set it to the Art page template in the Page Attributes section.

If this is the part to which you are referring to then what you have just created in the admin area is stored in the database, not in a physical file on the server. It is using the template file, which is a physical file on the server, although the content of that page is stored within the database. I can understand how that can be confusing in the beginning.

So to recap:

• Page templates are on the server

• Pages which are created from within the admin area are stored in the database, similar to posts

  • These pages are not part of your theme, which the physical files are -- the physical files are the templates
  • These pages use either custom templates or if not Wordpress looks to use the page.php template to contain the contents of the page you created from within the admin.

I hope this helps to clear things up a little.

Hey @Sean T. Unwin,

Can I find these files without downloading them from the video downloads? Or would I have to custom the project downloads to fit different types of posts?