OK, thanks. Then the short answer is you can't do that unfortunately.
Edit: Aaarg! Too slow!
WordPress is written in PHP, a programming language. When you access a page on your site, the PHP is executed and it outputs the HTML you see in your browser. But these HTML pages aren't stored anywhere (ignoring caching and the like); they're generated each time.
Sometimes the PHP source is basically the same as the HTML it produces. For instance
PHP Code:
echo "This is some PHP. Isn't it fun?";
will output
Code:
This is some PHP. Isn't it fun?
But often it's more complicated than that.
PHP Code:
echo "<p>Look! I can count!</p>\n<p>";
for ($i = 1; $i < 6; i++)
{
echo " " . $i;
}
echo "!!!</p>";
The output here will be
HTML Code:
<p>Look! I can count!</p>
<p> 1 2 3 4 5!!!</p>
When I access your site, your server calls index.php in your site root. This file then calls a load of other WordPress files, including your template. The output from all of these files comes together to make the page you see.
For instance, your template's index.php (the blog homepage template file) probably looks something like this
PHP Code:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="Main Home">
if (have_posts())
{
while (have_posts())
{
the_post();
?>
<div class="Entry">
<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<?php
the_content(MORE_TEXT);
wp_link_pages(MULTIPAGE_TEXT);
?>
</div>
<?php
}
}
?>
</div>
<?php
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>
The first line tells WordPress to load your theme's header (header.php). This is a good thing because it means you only have to write the header code once, rather than for the archives and page and post views too. Then there's a load of gubbins while WordPress runs through the loop loading your recent posts. And finally there are two calls to tell WordPress to load the sidebar (sidebar.php) and the footer (footer.php), again saving you writing those more than once.
It is a little more difficult to see how it all fits together at first, but being able to reuse the same code in many situations is a huge bonus and is what makes programs like WordPress possible.
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