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.
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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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These really helped me to build my homepage, I can really appreciated if people take some time and write a usefull tutorial.
Glad you found the information useful!
At the bottom of our embryo site it says “is powered by WordPress”. How do you customise that to make it say – for example – “Our site is powered by WordPress” or “zummerzet.co.uk is powered by WordPress?”
I am very impressed by your work.
Thank you for the nice compliment!
In most themes, that is in the footer.php file which is in the theme file you chose for your WordPress site. So if you edit footer.php, you can change the wording. You don’t need to know much PHP to edit it; just use a code editor and be careful not to touch the PHP code (unless you feel comfortable doing so).
If you are willing to pay a little bit the best book I found on the topic was PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling. This book walks you through many great projects including developing forums for your website, e-commerce applications and making your website more secure. Definitely worth the money although as Leora mentioned there are great sites where you can learn PHP for free.
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Thank you for the book recommendation. I find if you really want to learn a topic in depth, having a good book you can drag anywhere and read under a tree or by a brook can help a lot. We all have different learning styles.
Great intro to getting into the more interesting parts of web dev. I’m still learning now, especially CSS which is a love/hate relationship.
Some great tips and links for PHP. Thanks for sharing.