Title: Coding for newbies
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Coding for newbies

 *  [caoimhin1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caoimhin1/)
 * (@caoimhin1)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-for-newbies/)
 * I want to modify my theme to do stuff like dividing my blogroll by categories
   and adding ads. I guess this means I need to learn stuff like PHP. Does anyone
   know of a site with quick tutorials on PHP? Thanks!

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-for-newbies/#post-208443)
 * Blogroll _is_ a Link category. Of course, you can give a header title to the 
   whole Link section (Blogroll) and then use the built-in Link Categories feature
   to create different link categories.
    For adding ads – edit the sidebar.php in
   your theme.
 *  [yami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yami/)
 * (@yami)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-for-newbies/#post-208444)
 * Caoimhin, depending on what you want to do, you may not need to learn much PHP
   at all – just enough to work with the WordPress template system. Dividing your
   blogroll by categories can be accomplished using the [wp_get_links](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_links)
   tag, for one; and there are many ad systems that give you code that can just 
   be dropped into your sidebar.
 * Try just browsing the documentation on [Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/), 
   particularly the [Lessons](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons) section.
   Sounds like you might benefit from [Stepping into Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags).
 * If you’re really just looking for a php tutorial, you could try the one on [php.net](http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php).

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