A guide to the WordPress Codex
Hi, here is a quick list of important Codex pages for the WordPress blogs:
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email
For bloggers, the posts info is definitely the most important of the topics. And for beginners of WordPress, knowing about the SEO optimization of the blog will definitely be important (Intro to Blogging).
Admin Panels discusses the the use of the admin area. Not all of these panels will be seen by the bloggers, as WP restricts admin privileges at our discretion.
Pages are the static content of a WP site, and most likely require custom theme templates. You will see some code in the Pages codex. That is only for development purposes and might confuse new bloggers.
Quite a bit of the WordPress Codex is devoted to development of sites, as WordPress becomes more of a CMS. To delve more deeply into the code here are some of the most important areas for us designers and developers:
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
- http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Knowing the template structure and how the Loop works are really the most important. With the help of the Template Tag index, an intelligent person can make a pretty cool, dynamic WP site quickly.
I’ll leave the thorny, weird programming to the programmers:
It is pretty easy to just write a “functions.php” file and leave it in the theme directory. Sometimes this amounts to writing a plugin, but it is probably wiser to put a plugin in the “plugins” directory, as a functions file may break over the upgrading of the site….
Rock On!!
Jeff
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