WordPress Help

Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • MySQL

    A brief introduction to MySQL, and some examples of MySQL queries, using the phpMyAdmin interface.

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  • PHP

    A brief introduction to PHP, and some examples of PHP code.

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  • JavaScript

    A brief introduction to JavaScript, how JavaScript can be added to an HTML page, and some examples of what is possible with JavaScript.

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  • CSS

    A brief introduction to CSS, how CSS can be added to an HTML page, and how to apply CSS to elements.

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  • HTML

    A brief introduction to HTML, what HTML looks like, and how it’s rendered in the browser.

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  • Other useful development tools

    Introduces some of the other useful tools for developers, including tools for both theme and plugin development

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  • Code editor

    A summary of some of the more popular code editors available for developing with WordPress.

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  • WordPress Installation

    Learn how to manually set up a local WordPress instance, through the famous five-minute install.

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  • Local development environment

    An introduction to the concept of a local development environment, as well as some common options.

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  • Admin page request

    Explore a typical WordPress admin request and step through the code execution.

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