Dissecting WordPress

WordPress is used by bloggers, which isn’t surprising being that it was originally a blogging platform. Although it has become much more than that, it still functions as a blogging tool for many. For those bloggers out there, I will now dissect SINGLE.PHP, the template that displays a single post. This is part of series of articles centered around dissecting the different components of WordPress. If you were able to understand, and make sense of, my discussion on PAGE.PHP, you’ll find SINGLE.PHP to be quite simple. It features the “loop,” navigational elements, the comments template (which I will also review here), […]

My journey to WordPress began by learning basic HTML, laboriously typed out in Notepad. Over the years I added CSS, then some JavaScript, to gain a bit of interaction with website viewers. File “includes” for reusable page elements like a header and footer, or a menu, made building websites a bit more streamlined—though I still did a lot of hand-coding—and I was comfortable with it. I knew of the existence of WordPress, and CMS systems, and eventually the day came when I sat down and committed to learning WordPress so I could turn over sites to clients and they could […]