1. You use a theme that disables your WP Admin bar, that makes it impossible to find the backend of a certain page from the front end.
It's bad for development.
Anyway, this is the backend you are looking for:
hidden link
That's where that dummy content comes from.
2. Great Job!
I see you got the turn with Views 😉
Imagine how long you would have coded PHP to create such a List!
The View looks clean, clean and over-viewable output, clean HTML and semantic.
3. There is a difference in Views, Content Templates, Layouts and Templates added by the Theme.
- See here the difference from Views to Content Templates:
https://toolset.com/faq/whats-the-difference-between-a-view-and-a-view-template/
- Content Template replace ONLY the_content()
If the theme adds info like Title, authorship, date of post, etc, outside of the_content() then you can not overwrite this with Content Templates but need Layouts.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content
- Templates provided by your Theme are usually hardcoded templates, like "Page with 2 Sidebars" which is available in your Page's editor > Page Attributes.
Layouts enables you to create the same sort of Templates, but without the need of Code and by drag and drop.
- Content Templates are only styling the_content(), not the ENTIRE Page
- Layouts and Theme templates do affect the ENTIRE Page
4. To filter/search.
One is Views Parametric Search.
You can "search" the content (content and post title) or Custom Fields / taxonomies and post relationships.
Another possibility is the WordPress default Search function or a 3rd Party Plugin.
But With Views you will be able to create amazing, to-the-point search forms:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/front-page-filters/
Please do not hesitate to open a new thread if other issues or problems arise
Thank you for your patience.