Overview
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Want to modify default behaviors and build plugins and themes for your WordPress site? This course equips you with the basic PHP skills you need to get started.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What is PHP for WordPress?
- What you should know
- Setting up a local environment
- What is PHP?
- Printing information
- What are variables?
- Strings in PHP
- Using arrays
- Arithmetic operators and math in PHP
- Challenge: Perform a mathematic operation and store it
- Solution: Perform a mathematic operation and store it
- Comparison operators and the truth
- Logical operators
- Creating if/else statements
- Conditional tags in WordPress
- Loops
- The Loop in WordPress
- Challenge: Loop through an array of information
- Solution: Loop through an array of information
- What are functions?
- Using functions in WordPress
- Writing your own functions
- Challenge: Write your own function to compare two numbers
- Solution: Write your own function to compare two numbers
- The functions file
- Copying Hello Dolly
- WP_Query
- Hooks: Actions and filters
- Next steps
