“Unlock the Secrets of Web Development: PHP Explained in Simple Terms for Total Newbies!”

Powering themes and plugins

What are some of WordPress’ main tasks powered by PHP? Before the advent of block themes, WordPress themes were all written mostly in PHP, especially page template files. In fact, if you look at the template hierarchy, you can see that WordPress has PHP files for pretty much all pages and theme components.

a visualization of the WordPress template hierarchy
Image from WordPress.org

Why? So we have the ability to create a single layout for one type of content and then dynamically display what’s saved in the database for a particular piece of content.

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