Is PHP the only language used with WordPress

Hi,
Yes, the core of WordPress is PHP because the complete WordPress(Core +front end) is coded in PHP using strong OOPs concept and to work with WordPress like development and customization of themes and plugins you must have at least basic knowledge of PHP. However WordPress is easy to use and maintain and a person not having very strong at coding can also manage a website based on WordPress.

Thanks, that’s helpful.

It’s my pleasure.

FWIW, WordPress supports XML-RPC and REST APIs, so if you interface with WordPress this way, you can code in any language you like. This will allow you to manipulate many kinds of WP data, but if you want to modify the internal workings or outward appearance of WP itself, as mentioned above, PHP is it, there is no alternative.

No Php is not only used in word press , there are many other languages used in wordpress , like java , css and XML. But yes Php is widely used in wordpress development.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Arvind Singh.

arvindsinghu is partly correct, I did gloss over some ancillary details. There are other supporting codes used in WP core, but they all revolve around the core PHP code. These cannot be substituted for PHP.

If we’re being pedantic, Java is not used at all in core WP code. Maybe he meant JavaScript, which is used in a supporting role, but is entirely unrelated to Java. CSS and XML are codes, but they are not programming languages. Some would argue that JavaScript and PHP are not true programming languages either, they are scripting languages. But now I’ve become too pedantic as well. Enough.

It is useful to know the supporting codes that arvindsinghu intended to mention, plus jQuery, SQL, and lets not forget HTML ?? There’s also JSON, underscore, LESS, and likely more that’s not coming to me at the moment. I took your question to mean is there an alternative to use in place of PHP. For that there is not.