WordPress.

I have worked with WordPress before and see the power of the system, in fact I actually like it quite a bit.  The problem I have had in the past is that I would just search for a theme and poke at it with an editor until I get something that sort of worked. I didn’t fully understand why it worked and why it didn’t. I found this method unacceptable.

For the next few months I have been given the time to explore how WordPress works and how to develop themes for it.

So far in my exploration I have found several resources. I decided to go straight to the source, codex.wordpress.org. This site has tons of quality information about the inner workings of wordpress. Now I am not a PHP/MySQL developer, so some of it is above my head and I don’t feel any shame about it.  That is one of the reasons why I started this blog. But what is great about the Codex is it written well and is pretty straight forward.

I have also found a couple of quality tutorials but the first one I am going to start with from the people at wp.tutsplus.com.  The tutorial was written by Dan Walker on Jun 20th 2011 so it is fairly new. I have noticed that the majority of the tutorials that the Envato publishes are very good.  The tutorial is a 3 article series so I will keep posting about it for the immediate future.

So I covered a little of my intent with this blog and what I have found so far. This is going to be a journey to improve my skills and document the information I encounter.