learning wordpress

  • Resolved jimdun9241

    (@jimdun9241)


    16 years ago

    I am looking for ideas to learn wordpress and themes. I know CSS and PHP, but I need to learn how to use them with wordpress. I have read a lot of the wordpress documentation, and googled for tutorials. I created a theme from one of the tutorials. I tried changing a lot of things to have the theme look different. I am sure there is an easier way. I am thinking of buying the dummies book and another themes book. There will be an updated dummies book next month.

    Jim

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Don’t laugh at this but another good way to learn WordPress is to answer a few questions here in the forum.

    Looks like you know about the Codex, you’ve create a theme, you’re getting a book. Here’s a Codex link, just in case; Category:WordPress_Lessons

    Might also join the wp-hackers and wp-testers email lists–see Mailing Lists.

    Browsing the WordPress bug tracking is also a interesting way to keep up on the development and bug fixing–see https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7070

    Conclusion–not sure there is an easier way!

    Thread Starter jimdun9241

    (@jimdun9241)

    Thanks for your ideas. I just subscribed to all of the mailing lists.
    I found the book I needed at the library, “HTML & XHTML” (O’Reilly). My problem was not wordpress knowledge, but changes to HTML and XHTML, since I retired in 2000. I used to teach web design. Those changes were just being discussed when I retired.

    I was a computer pioneer 50 years ago. My thesis was about the early hackers. I ended my career as dept chair of computer science for the last 5 years. I taught all of the languages and web design. I still maintain web sites for friends. I use native HTML.

    Jim

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