Top WordPress Code Sites
If you use WordPress, the inevitable will soon happen: the results you want will only be available to you by touching the code. If you want to fine tune your site, you should learn enough PHP (programming language for the Web) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to make it unique to your business or organization.
Sites to Learn PHP
- Web and Designers: Introduction to PHP
- From the PHP manual itself: A Simple Tutorial
- Ivan Novak: 10 Sites for PHP Beginners
One basic idea to know about PHP is it can be intertwined within HTML. You will see the beginning of the PHP as:
A few lines (or characters or many lines) later it will be closed with:
Blogs that write about WordPress Code
Once you have the basics, here are some great blogs to follow for coding ideas and details:
Cats Who Code
Update: See also wpswitch
Ways to Learn CSS
If you love the details of color, styling and formatting, you will soon enjoy CSS.
- Web Design Fan: 15 Excellent Websites To Learn CSS
- W3 Schools: CSS Tutorial
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Starting with HTML + CSS
The other solution, of course, to learning code is to hire a professional (feel free to contact me) to fine tune your code for you.
Themocracy
I like catswhocode and their other blog http://www.wprecipes.com will try others on the list…
Cats Who Code (aka Jean-Baptiste Jung) is great. There’s another one, WP Beginner, that I like, too, but then I saw Jean-Baptiste Jung complaining that they steal his info. I chose not to include them, but they are good, too. http://www.wpbeginner.com/
WP Engineer comes up with good coding suggestions.
I have seen that one before but haven’t subscribed to their feed or anything… I usually look up for help online or bookmark few of the links that I got on twitter thanks to many other people like you. I learnt a lot from css-tricks.com video tutorials for wp themes etc…
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