Custom WordPress theme showing index.php items in functions.php page

Question

I'm following a video tutorial to convert a custom HTML template into a WordPress website. I copied my files into the themes folder and have renamed my files properly according to WordPress standards. Whilst I managed to get WordPress recognise my theme through edits in style.css , when I launch the website, I got a blank page.

I have an index.php filled with my front page code and a blank functions.php page. When I visit the the website at localhost/wordpress/ , I got a blank page. When I open localhost/wordpress/functions.php , I got all the stuff.

I've searched online for solutions but still got no luck. I've also tried the debugging code, but I don't see any issue with my PHP code because I only had <?php get_header(); ?> <?php get_header(); ?> and <?php get_footer(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> in my code.

What could possibly go wrong?

Answer 1

You can try to rename index.php to front-page.php, and leave a blank index.php