Do you need to know PHP to be a WordPress Pro?

all right everybody welcome to the video of my name is Stef so do you need to know PHP to be a word press freelancer a word press service provider so you may or may not know that there is a type of freelancer out there but it works pretty much exclusively with WordPress and the reason you have this WordPress professional out there is because so many websites run on WordPress all many small businesses run on WordPress WordPress has its advantages and disadvantages but overall it's very advantageous for people because the WordPress application itself which is a PHP based application it has all kinds of abilities built in and it's relatively easy to install but allow site owners to update the site add new pages edit the content very easily WordPress is a very powerful content management system we call this a CMS and it's the most popular one in the world for a reason this video is sponsored by WP forms this is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily add very powerful forms into your WordPress sites without knowing how to code you get drag and drop capability its responsive and mobile friendly there are instant notifications payments could be made easy you got form templates conditional logic and much more WP forms helps make developers life easier by helping them create smart forms faster go to WP forms calm slash killer PHP and get a good discount once again click on the link below for WP forms you get a nice discount when you click through something worth looking into one of the reasons that WordPress is so widely used is because of the ecosystem so you got the core app itself which is very powerful but then you have this big huge ecosystem which is unrivaled in the world now the WordPress ecosystem includes the themes of course which are all visual templates and a lot of these themes not only have a visual component but they also have a functional component where they provide all kinds of functionality in addition to that you have the plugins ecosystem in WordPress where you've got all kinds of plugins where you can add a bunch of capabilities to your WordPress site could be shopping cart systems it could be farms just like the WordPress forums here the sponsor of this video and all slew of other capabilities so the original question on the video is do you need to be a PHP programmer to work with WordPress as a freelancer as a wordpress professional the short answer is no not at all and in fact many many people operate WordPress for years without knowing anything about code that being said if you know your HTML 5 and your CSS 3 and you throw in some basic PHP your ability to work what WordPress will increase quite a bit especially when it comes to editing themes the wordpress templates and maybe creating your own themes from scratch now if you're editing themes you really have to master your CSS and your HTML much less so your PHP although because WordPress is created with PHP you're gonna have to get in there when you create themes with WordPress or your editing themes the visual component you gonna see PHP code so even knowing the basics of PHP is just going to make it easy easier for you to navigate through the theme structure and that you find with every word press theme WordPress template again it's not essential but it does helped us to have the basics also something I've been teaching for many years now when you understand how to write code when you write markup language like HTML or you write a styling language like CSS or a programming language like PHP or JavaScript by the way WordPress uses a JavaScript of course although when it comes to your functional day-to-day operations were WordPress PHP having some basic PHP programming skills before far more advantage meant ages than JavaScript that said when you understand programming your ability to just work with WordPress is going to be better it's going to be easier for you so there's tremendous advantages so even for people who are managing a bunch of websites even if let's say you run a very successful business you have a very successful website and you're not really involved in the coding at all having a background in coding is still going to be valuable because you're going to be able to speak nerd you can understand understand the implications or certain things so I highly recommend if you want to get into wordpress freelancing you want to become a wordpress professional I would learn some PHP again you don't have to become a PHP programmer but you should be able to read basic PHP code you know understanding what a function is how to set up variables understanding what the loops are just the very basics you get that under your belt your ability to work with WordPress will be just that much better thanks for watching [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Stefan Mischook

Views: 10,188

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Keywords: wordpress, wordpressfreelancer

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Length: 6min 47sec (407 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019