Heres a guide to PHP: PhpTutorial A useful site: trustingeeks.com and worpress experts: wizpert
Install Plugins
How to install a plugin: https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins Installing Plugins Automatic Plugin Installation WordPress Plugins Panel To add a WordPress Plugin using the built-in plugin installer: Go to Plugins > Add New. Under Search, type in the name of the WordPress Plugin or descriptive keyword, author, or tag in the search form or click a tag link… Read more »
Contact Form
Here is a plugin for a contact form: Contact Form by BestWebSoft 1. Upload the Contact Form folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. 2. Activate the plugin using the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel. 3. You can adjust the necessary settings using your WordPress admin panel in “BWS Plugins” > “Contact Form”. 4. Create… Read more »
Custom Menus
Here is a link on how to customise your menu: Custom Menus And watch the following video:
List of what to learn
PHP MySql How to use themes How to use plugins How to develop themes How to develop plugins How to customise the MySQL Database How to add a wordpress blog to an existing site how to add a wordpress e-commerce shop to an existing site WordPress developer training courses: http://wordpressdevelopernetwork.org/wordpress-training-hertfordshire/ http://www.manta9.com/ http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/training/wordpress-developer http://webdesign.com/ php course… Read more »
Access wordpress MySQL
To access the MySQL database go to phpMyAdmin > Click on table and go to SQl to query table Useful links: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-wordpress-database-management-with-phpmyadmin/ http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-enter-php-code-for-accessing-mysql-database-tables?replies=12 Working With Custom Database Tables In WordPress
Integrating WordPress with Your Website
One of the important things that I will need to be able to do is integrating WordPress into my existing sites: http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website
Privacy/Password protecting page/site
I have tried to password protect the site which doesn t seem to be working at the moment. So i m going to try to find out a few things: 1. Can the whole site be private? 2. How to invite someone to view a private site? 3. Why Password protecting the page isn t… Read more »
How to create a e-commerce site
Following on from yesterdays post i watched the wordpress video (upto 1:43hr) and started the process of adding a e-commerce site. So here is a summary of what i have learnt so that it can be done again. Steps to install a E-commerce theme: 1. Go to Theme > Install theme 2. Create an account… Read more »
WordPress My Beginning
OK so this is the beginning of my wordpress journey… I am currently a asp.net developer with jquery/html/sql/ajax etc etc experience and would like to learn a bit about wordpress so that i can design and develop sites but I have a lot to learn… I am also on maternity leave so when (!) my… Read more »