Coding knowledge needed?

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  charmingnathan2 · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 5:48 pm

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  Hello,

  I hope you can help.

  I am thinking of moving across from Dreamweaver to WordPress for my Website, but I have very little coding knowledge, and want to be able to customise Themes and create Hotspots, etc.

  From what I’ve read, to do this, I would need to have at least a basic working knowledge of .php to do using WordPress.

  Is this correct?

  Thanks, in advance, for your help.

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  jsmutek · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 8:54 pm

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  Hey there, this forum is for blogs hosted on wordpress.com so this isn;t really the right place for your question, but you might want to check this Adobe blog post out –

  http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2013/10/wordpress-sites-dreamweaver.html

  If you want to get into WordPress development you’ll definitely want to have a working knowledge of PHP & JavaScript, and a solid foundation with HTML & CSS.

  Note that you won’t be able to edit any PHP or JavaScript files on a wordpress.com blog as the theme template files are locked down for security reasons (read this to see what you can do on a wordpress.com hosted blog), but you can use these skills to develop your own themes for a self hosted blog (difference between .com & self hosted) or even to develop themes for wordpress.com once you’ve become a master. :)

  Hope this helps a bit.

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  charmingnathan2 · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:43 pm

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  Hello jsmutek,

  Thanks very much indeed for your helpful reply.

  You are absolutely correct! I signed up for the WordPress Forum at the .com site rather than .org, so as you say, I am posting in the wrong place.

  However, you also got the wrong idea from what I posted.

  I don’t especially want to get into WordPress development at all, I just want to be able to customise a site using WordPress like I would with Dreamweaver, but it appears that in order to create features like Hotspots one actually needs to know a certain level of coding, which you don’t necessarily with Dreamweaver, which considering the way WordPress is advertised as being much simpler to use somewhat surprises me!

  It did occur to me that I may have downloaded the wrong version of WordPress to my server, but it appears the .com ‘version’ is hosted, to that can’t be the case either.

  But thanks for your help, anyway, I will post my message over at the .org Forum!

  Cheers.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 11:14 pm

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  WordPress is simpler to use if you want to use it for blogging. It’s not simpler to use if you want to use it for designing.