PHP for WordPress
Treehouse
Course Summary
This course is meant for people who know HTML and CSS (and maybe some JavaScript) but have not begun to study PHP yet. It is not a replacement for studying PHP on its own, but it will help you be able to jump into WordPress development quickly without having to do a lot of prerequisite work with PHP and web development.
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Course Description
About this Course This course is meant for people who know HTML and CSS (and maybe some JavaScript) but have not begun to study PHP yet. It is not a replacement for studying PHP on its own, but it will help you be able to jump into WordPress development quickly without having to do a lot of prerequisite work with PHP and web development. What you'll learn
- What PHP can do
- PHP Basics
- Template Tags
- The Loop
- Functions in WordPress
About the Teacher
Zac is the WordPress teacher at Treehouse. He has an extensive background in web design and WordPress education, having taught and help run college and high school web programs. You can often find him attending and speaking at local WordCamp meetups.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction to PHP for WordPress
This course starts off with some explanation of what PHP is and what it can do. We will walk through some of the different types of PHP files in WordPress and show how to access and edit these files. 8 steps- Introduction to PHP for WordPress 1:07
- What is PHP? 0:47
- PHP Files 4:21
- Editing PHP Files 5:12
- A PHP Block 4:19
- The Importance of the Semicolon 3:44
- Adding HTML Markup with PHP 1:37
- Introduction to PHP for WordPress Quiz 10 questions
PHP Basics for WordPress
Now that we have some basic understanding about PHP we will start looking at some basic things that PHP can do. 6 stepsMore Advanced PHP for WordPress
In this section we look at some of the more complex aspects of PHP that you will encouter when working in WordPress. 6 steps
