title: Understanding wordpress the_content
body: <p>I have been asked to tweak a friend's website. The website was built for them using Wordpress by an agency they no longer work with. Problem is, I don't know very much about Wordpress, so I have some basic questions…</p>
  
  <p>I can see (by comparing the source as viewed in my browser to the php templates that I can edit through the Wordpress interface) that the elements I need to modify are generated by the page's call to "the_content()". I don't really understand what this function does, but I think it pulls content for a given page from the MySQL database. Is that right?</p>
  
  <p>I suspect that the Wordpress interface alone won't be enough to let me modify elements that come out of that database. Is that correct? How does anyone change, for example, the specific arrangement of text and images on a page if the relevant markup is fetched by "get_content()"? </p>