227 – Code Types that Make up a WordPress Site

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Code Types that Make up a WordPress site

Today’s episode comes from a question posed by listener Russell. He wrote in looking for a resource that explains the high level architecture of a typical WordPress website and how the pieces fit together and what each piece does in general terms.

WordPress – CMS that makes it easy to update your website without having to learn code or server stuff.

HTML – the structure of your site

CSS – the look / style of your site

PHP – allows to dynamically generate pages; pulls information from database

jQuery – does the fancy stuff you see on websites; on my site is shrinks the header image when scrolling, it makes the images zoom when hovered over

Database – this is where all the data is store. Posts / pages / comments / settings / plugin configurations etc

Servers – I’m kinda clueless here 🙂 The three I know are Apache, nginx, IIS (windows)

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