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WordPress

Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
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Posted by Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points

Wordpress In Front-End Web Development

Currently I am learning front-end web development, and I am planning on learning Wordpress but It may require some PHP too. So should I just take the "Beginning Wordpress" track and that's it or should I take "Beginning PHP" after it and go deeper in Wordpress ( I mean as a front-end web developer ).

Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points
Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points

Thanks for clarifying the point VERY well! :D

1 Answer

Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi there,

Because WordPress uses PHP, I feel taking the Beginning PHP before the WordPress course would be more beneficial to your learning. Mastering PHP can come later, but a basic understanding will help when learning how to apply it to WordPress Themes, etc.

Keep coding! :) :dizzy:

Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points
Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points

I mean, should I even bother with that stuff as a front-end web developer?

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Here's where opinions will differ.
As a "Front-end" Developer, no, you won't need PHP. But, as a "WordPress" Developer, you absolutely need PHP. I see Front-end and WordPress as being two different types of Development, just as I see Python and JavaScript as being two different types of Development.

Front-end Developers typically deal with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript only. Whereas WordPress developers deal with those, but also have to have a very strong, even highly proficient, knowledge of PHP in order to successfully and fully develop with WordPress.
Sure, you could use the themes and do everything out-of-the-box, but anyone can do that, and many do with no training.
A WordPress Developer, however, modifies or even creates their own themes, or at the very least, child-themes. Without PHP, this cannot be done.

So, if you're on planning on only being a "Front-End" developer, than no you'll need not "bother" with PHP. But if you're planning on developing with WordPress, then yes, you will require strong PHP skills.