PHP for WordPress

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.

Introduction

• What is PHP for WordPress?
• What you should know
• Setting up a local environment

1. PHP Basics

• 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

2. Control Structures

• 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

3. Using Functions

• 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

4. Working in WordPress

• The functions file
• Copying Hello Dolly
• WP_Query
• Hooks: Actions and filters

Conclusion

• Next steps