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What language to learn for wordpress?

by Taniwha
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I have a bought a $40 premium wordpress theme. Now I need to fill in the blanks etc.

I'm totally new to programming so what should I learn to do that? PHP? CSS?

My site which I want to do it to: buildmylikes.com
The site which I want to make it look like: buildmyfans.com

Any advice is more then welcome
#language #learn #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author MirInfotech
    If you're going to customize the theme then you should learn both PHP and CSS. But I think for your site to look like the other one you should concentrate more on css and html. You can find tutorials at w3cshools.
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    • Profile picture of the author ChrisStCroix
      There was a theme offered here about 2 weeks ago, 3 business themes that would accomplish the layout without having to program. Not 100% but with minimal tweaking could accomplish it.

      Wordpress is written in PHP, but I would first dive into CSS.
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  • Profile picture of the author Taniwha
    CSS - PHP - HTML. Would that be a suitable order?

    Thanks both for your responses. It looks like w3schools is the perfect place for me.

    ChrisStCriox, if you're not too busy. Do you mind trying to remember that theme?
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  • Profile picture of the author ernestrategos
    What do you want? how fast? what is your learning strategy?

    I'd go with:
    "All at the same time in small doses"
    (like mixed martial arts)

    Because it might take a while to learn one first, then the other, then the other...
    I'd start with Wordpress per se and fill in the blanks while you're tweaking and learning, specially since you have a project going on right now.
    As time goes by you can go deep into just one and then other languages.

    Example:
    http://blog.doteasy.com/2010/08/18/tweaking-your-wordpress-theme-part-1/
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    Agreed its best to learn all 3 at the same time, however in the beginning I would concentrate more on understanding CSS and HTML while learning PHP along the way.

    Why??

    Regardless of what platform you use it will always send the information for the browser to display in an HTML format and the CSS is then used to tell the browser how it wants that information displayed on the page

    PHP does cool stuff behind the scenes and then the results of the cool stuff is converted into an HTML format which it the sends to the web browser for it to display in whatever way the CSS tells it to

    good luck, you have some fun times ahead
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    • Profile picture of the author guy99
      For wordpress you can go for PHP and CSS....
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