[FRIAM] Google Bard

Sun May 21 13:20:24 EDT 2023

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On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 10:32 PM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> 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...
>
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