I haven't signed up for ChatGPT or similar, so I tried Google Bard to get an answer to a practical question to do with WordPress development. I knew that the answer that it gave me was incorrect, and said so. Here is an abridged version of the second conversation:
Gary: I asked Google Bard the following question: "If I have a wordpress site with no pages or posts, what gets displayed when I go to the site?" and it basically told me that it won't display anything, and told me how to add pages or posts. That answer was just plain wrong. The theme somehow displays something by default, and I'd like to know what mechanism it uses to show this default content. Bard admitted it was wrong and pointed to what I presume is correct (I haven't looked into it to verify). Bard: You are correct, Google Bard's answer was incorrect. When you have a WordPress site with no pages or posts, the theme will display a default content. This default content is usually a message that encourages you to create your first page or post. The mechanism that the theme uses to display this default content is called the template hierarchy. The template hierarchy is a system that WordPress uses to determine which template file to load for a particular page or post. When you have no pages or posts, WordPress will load the index.php template file. This file is responsible for displaying the default content. The following is an example of the default content that is displayed by the index.php template file: Code snippet <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Welcome to WordPress</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to WordPress</h1> <p>This is your new WordPress site. To get started, please create your first page or post.</p> <p><a href="wp-admin/post-new.php">Create a new page</a></p> <p><a href="wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post">Create a new post</a></p> </body> </html> You can customize the default content by editing the index.php template file. You can find this file in your theme's directory. I wonder how ChatGPT would fare? Anyone care to try since I haven't signed up for it... -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
