I am on the verge of learning PHP and Wordpress and would like to know much well I need to know PHP to flirt with customized WP. Do I even need to learn PHP before going deep in to WP theme?
Do you intend to create your own themes or customise already built themes?
I have moderate knowledge of PHP, and I find myself editing and customising (already built) Wordpress themes easily.
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Hi Sang_Min_Shin welcome to the
As long as you know HTML and CSS and do only relatively minor HTML and CSS changes, you won’t need to know PHP much more than recognize it as PHP
If you want to go deep then well,
Not only will you need to know at least PHP “basics” but moreso want to gain extensive familiarity with “WordPress PHP” such as it is, in particular, a good understanding “the loop”
https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
Luckily, there is IMHO excellent documentation, but be advised, there is a lot of documentation. eg.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference
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Awesome! Thanks! I am actually going to do both.
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