{"id":6520634,"date":"2015-09-07T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/php-vs-html-1\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:43:48","slug":"php-vs-html-1","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/php-vs-html-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Php vs Html"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

I’m very confused by the use of hard to read and “verbose” php code I find in wordpress instead of pure, simple html.
\nSee<\/p>\n

<div class="site-info">\n<?php do_action( 'twentyfourteen_credits' ); ?>\n  <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https:\/\/wordpress.org\/', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentyfourteen' ), 'WordPress' ); ?><\/a>.\n Copyright \u00a9<?php echo date( 'Y' ); ?>\n<\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n
instead of<\/p>\n
<div class="site-info">\n <a href="http:\/\/wordpress.org">Proudly powered by WordPress<\/a>.\n Copyright \u00a92015\n<\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n
And since more people know html than php, I wonder if there is a purpose for making WordPress coding so complicated. Or is it just php for php’s sake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6520634","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6520634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6520634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}