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Lindsey Whitney
9,699 PointsPrior Skills Needed for Wordpress Developer Track?
Hello,
I was wondering if the Wordpress Developer Track assumes you know PHP before you take it? Or can you learn the basic PHP you'll need within the course? I'm about to wrap up the Front End Web Development track, so I have the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript down. Hoping I'm ready to tackle this one next?
Thanks! Lindsey
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI think you'll be fine. You don't need to know much PHP to do a lot in wordpress. It has it's own little ecosystem that is pretty friendly to use. What you do need to know, you'll learn and see in the courses.
David Weigel
8,265 PointsI would suggest checking out the Learn Wordpress track first as a great intro series to WP.
Then, in the Wordpress Development track, there is a mini-PHP course specifically for people getting started with PHP for WP. Then if you wanted to go crazy, there is the PHP Dev Track.
Good luck :)
Lindsey Whitney
9,699 PointsI've actually used Wordpress quite a bit in my previous job as a designer, so I'm pretty familiar with it from a user perspective. It looks like it is a pretty short track though, so I might just do that. Thanks David!
Lindsey Whitney
9,699 PointsLindsey Whitney
9,699 PointsThat is what I was hoping to hear—thanks Kevin!
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsFWIW about two years ago I started hacking together a custom wordpress theme without having a single bit of previous PHP knowledge. I say hacking because it was very ugly (code base and poorly written, but it still technically functioned as a theme.