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WordPress

Posted by Johnathan Rowley
Johnathan Rowley
3,842 Points

what to learn first

hi i'm a aspiring Wordpress developer i know that there is Wordpress track but are there any deep dives or projects to give me a full understanding to become a Wordpress developer? also what are some other things i should know to work at that as a career please any advice thank you

1 Answer

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

For someone starting out I'd maybe recommend you at least learn the admin area first. For that you might try The Tao of WordPress; later perhaps Digging Into Wordpress, or even some of the Wordpress recommended books.

Johnathan Rowley
Johnathan Rowley
3,842 Points

any languages to learn or treehouse classes i should take too?

Johnathan Rowley
Johnathan Rowley
3,842 Points

also what about hosting services i currently use for my Wordpress blog fatcow

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

The basic front-end languages are HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I mentioned what tracks to take so you can learn those languages and Wordpress.

As for hosting there are really a ton of choices. However, if you're just wanting to learn Wordpress development you might want to do that locally.

You may want to familiarize yourself with the command line as well. That'd give you a good start to maybe thinking about VPS / cloud hosting, or really one I like to recommend (they have one-click scripts to get you started with Wordpress): DigitalOcean. If you didn't want to work locally their cost is reletively low for getting setup rather quickly. You can always destroy your droplets if you mess something up and start new again. Website load times would also improve vastly than over shared hosting.

Hosting is a quite a subject with many choices but you can also check Web Hosting Talk.

Johnathan Rowley
Johnathan Rowley
3,842 Points

thank you for your advice Dustin but on last question could i learn html css and javascript by just doing deep dives and projects to speed up learning then take the Wordpress track. or should i stick with the way you told me ? but other then that i thank you for your time

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

You might find yourself jumping around from time to time and that's fine. Definitely check out all Treehouse learning material. Anything you learn from any area can be used later on, so maybe it doesn't matter a great deal. But you should at least have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS.