A couple of questions about wordpress templates?

Question

CMS

Hello.
We need to redesign the wordpress template that the client bought in the online store. The problem is that I have never worked with engines. I always did everything manually with html and jquery.
How difficult is it to edit these templates? Is there a special editor, or can I work in notepad++, webstorm? Thank you.

Answer 1

Templates are not HTML, but a structure, it is assembled from different files. Each file has code, this code is edited inside each component. The output is a template. Edit anything. For starters, you can look in the WordPress code where what and how. If the redesign only affects colors/fonts and not structure, you can do all the work in one style file.

Answer 2

Each page type has its own php template. you can edit in any IDE or editor, connect via ftp and go. Theme files are stored in wp-content/themes/yourtheme. But there is a lot of php and very little html) here the template hierarchy is clearly shown https://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_H...
Also, do not forget to prevent the theme from updating. You can rename it, or you can create a child theme https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_themes

Answer 3

For your task, searching through several files will suffice. Focus on the generated html by class and look for them in the theme. Rarely when a class is changed from php.