How to explore the codebase?

  • dudeperfect95

    (@dudeperfect95)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Good day,

    I read one article about how to become better at WordPress and noticed one tip:

    Explore the Codebase
    Take time to explore the WordPress codebase on Trac and on Xref. Read through the documentation to understand how things work. Look up what doesn’t make sense to you and ask questions. Familiarize yourself with how WordPress is structured.

    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser

    So how should I start doing this? There are a lot of files, should I explore the core files, that are downloaded with WordPress?

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  • Matheus Martins

    (@matheusfd)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hi dudeperfect95

    If you want to learn about WordPress, you need to knw at least a little bit knowledge about HTML, CSS and PHP.

    The WordPress.org give some links too where you can learn Learn.

    You can look at the core files, that files you get when you download WordPress too. Sure you will learn 🙂

    Hope you will be the next WordPress magic 🙂

    Phil Erb

    (@philerb)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    The WordPress Codex and Developer Resources are also good resources.

    Thread Starter dudeperfect95

    (@dudeperfect95)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I know all these resources and I already read them.

    I read this article
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/how-to-become-a-top-wordpress-developer/

    One part of it says “Explore codebase”, and it links to the link I showed you. I felt odd to see this, because it doesn’t give much information for me at first, so I wanted to ask you how to start exploring that link.

    Phil Erb

    (@philerb)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I guess it depends a bit on your ultimate goal. Basically, I’d suggest to pick some interesting functions from the developer reference or Codex and then review the code behind those functions – the developer reference gives you the path to the file where each function lives.

    Look at your favorite theme or plugin and pick out the functions it uses – check out how WordPress enables it to do what it does. And, more importantly, how it’s going to enable you to do what you want to do.

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