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WordPress

Posted by Habiballah Hezarehee
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Habiballah Hezarehee
Android Development Techdegree Student 6,312 Points

Recommended knowledge to begin Wordpress Development!

What's the recommended knowledge to begin the wordpress development tutorial? I have got good experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript as well as PHP. But not completely.

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
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Simon Coates
Simon Coates
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Well, those are the technologies that wordpress is made up of. Hence i'd think you should have a fairly good foundation.

Ethan Ede
Ethan Ede
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Ethan Ede
Ethan Ede
11,575 Points

Hi Hab, I'd recommend learning WP in earnest and then branching out from there as you better identify your needs. You'll need solid HTML and CSS chops, less so JS/JQuery and PHP. I found myself just learning whatever I needed as it came up, like adding functions to the functions.php file, or adding a plug-in, jQuery or otherwise. There's tons of great info here on Treehouse and WP is ridiculously well-supported in the open-source community, documentation everywhere. Google is your friend.

Here's an example: a great blog post from right here on Treehouse http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/responsive-wordpress-bootstrap-theme-tutorial

I found the Treehouse Bootstrap Basics course really helpful, have yet to dive into any WP-specific courses. I'm doing the Front End track and it has all been really helpful, tbh. What I did before treehouse was build a custom WP theme using Bootstrap. Know that I've taken these courses, I'm itching to rebuild my website with much better knowledge and code. :-)

Hope this helps - embrace the constant state of learning.

2 Answers

Habiballah Hezarehee
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Habiballah Hezarehee
Android Development Techdegree Student 6,312 Points

Thnaks for answers

Habiballah Hezarehee
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Habiballah Hezarehee
Android Development Techdegree Student 6,312 Points
Habiballah Hezarehee
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Habiballah Hezarehee
Android Development Techdegree Student 6,312 Points

Thank for answers I got som basic and fundamental knowledge about these skills but I mostly think if I need to be more better than what I do now to make plugin, themes and etc for WP. thank u in advamce

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
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IF you want to build a plugin or a theme from just core you will need to know PHP, and JS. If you want to build a custom theme from a framework you will need to know CSS/Sass and HTML. This goes without says that you will need to know how Wordpress works and what Wordpress functions do what.