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The WordPress Codex serves as the primary
documentation for how to use and customize WordPress.
The documentation lives at Codex.WordPress.Org and it provides
information for beginners and advanced WordPress users alike.
In this short course, we go over the basic content and structure of the codex, and
how you can make the most out of it while you advance in your WordPress learning.
The course breaks down into approaching the codex from the perspective of
the beginner WordPress user, a theme developer, and then a plugin developer.
While you will likely feel drawn to one of these perspectives more than the
others, I suggest that you take the
time to examine the codex from each perspective.
You'll likely find some helpful tidbits that you can
store away to share with others who are still learning.
Or so that you know where to return to again in the future, as
your needs change for what the codex
offers you, and what you're trying to learn.
After watching each section, take some time on your own to click through the
links and read the content on each of the pages that we look at.
Since, we'll be looking at the codex from a big
perspective, and not covering all of the details that it outlines.
The goal of this course is that you'll become better at being able
to research things you don't know about,
and troubleshoot things that have you stuck.
So, with that covered let's jump in and get started.
>> We can get to the WordPress codex by coming to the
main WordPress.org website and then coming to support and clicking on documentation.
We could see that that redirects the url to codex.wordpress.org So,
we could always access the codex in the future by going to codex.wordpress.org.
When we land on the home page of the codex,
we can see that it's broken down into a few sections.
We have information on learning how to use WordPress.
It's more general information for people just getting
started out using the software to power websites.
We then have information that's geared more towards
developers, like the theme and plugin documentation sections.
And then, information on how to contribute to or give back to WordPress.
Since WordPress is an open source project, a lot of its related projects,
including this whole Codex, is built by people who contribute to WordPress.
These people aren't necessarily paid, they're just volunteers and
users who love the product and want to give back.