[wp-docs] Themes vs Templates

[Darrell Schulte]

On Aug 27, 2005, at 10:32 AM, virgil huston wrote:

> I am doing some editing and have run into some confusion. Themes and
> templates seem to be discussed as if they are the same thing. To me,
> they are not. When selecting a layout in Presentation, are we
> selecting a template or a theme? To me, a theme is a stylesheet
> applied to a template, and we should be using the term template most
> of the time rather than theme. What is the official position on these
> terms?
>
> Bear with me if this is answered somewhere, I am finally getting my
> feet wet with working on the codex.

Virgil,

You are selecting a Theme when choosing a layout. A theme is a  
collection of template files. Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/ 
Using_Themes#What_is_a_Theme.3F

Darrell