PHP for WordPress

WordPress and PHP

WordPress uses MySQL as its main database to store all the data of a website. This includes the content of the posts and pages and metadata like the user profile information and plugin settings, etc. Other databases can be used but MySQL has been found to be the most compatible with WordPress. WordPress uses PHP to interact with the underlying database and fetch data. This course delves into PHP specific to WordPress only, to show how to leverage the power of PHP to fully automate a website. PHP is used to get specific information from the database and plug it in the HTML template file to create a web page.

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