PHP Basics for WordPress

@ericnkatz

About Me

Doing WordPress since ~ 2005

Full Stack Developer

Senior Consultant

PHP Basics

• Language Constructs / Syntax
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • Objects/Classes
  • Arrays
  • Integers
  • Floats
  • Loops/Conditionals

WordPress Basic PHP

• WordPress Theme Layer
  • have_posts();
    • the_post();
      • the_title();
      • the_permalink();
      • the_content();
      • the_time('F jS, Y');
• Functions.php
• Knowing where to look, Developer Resources
  • https://developer.wordpress.org/

WordPress Structure

Hook System

API / Actions

Plugins

Themes

Template Hierarchy

The Loop

Functions.php