How to Add WordPress Template Tags

1. Learn to recognize a template tag. They look like this:
Template tags tell your theme what to do. This one is telling the theme to retrieve the blog's name from the database.
2. Secure the template tag you want to add. This may take research at codex.wordpress.org. Countless tags perform numerous tasks.

3. Choose the correct template tag parameter. Parameters are unique variables that accompany template tags. Use these parameters to define specific database requests, such as calling up an email address, a blog description or your website address.
4. Identify the theme file where the template tag needs to go. Not all template tags are alike. Some tags must appear within the Loop, which is code that WordPress uses to display posts. Setting template tags within the Loop can be a complicated process. Beginners may want to gain experience adding template tags in theme files unrelated to posts, until comfort working with template tags grows.
5. Open your selected theme file in a text editor. You can use any text editor that allows you to save files with the file extension .php.
6. Insert the tag into one the.php theme file. For example, if you desire the template tag to call information from the database into your header, place the tag within your theme's header.php file. When in doubt about where you should place the template tag, add the code on its own line, near code you are already familiar with.
7. Visit your blog and check for success.