How WordPress Works
To understand what and how we can develop for WordPress, we’ll start by taking a quick look at how WordPress works. It has three major components: the core, themes, and plugins. The core code contains all the default functionality that makes up the WordPress functionality that makes up the WordPress content management system. This includes everything from the admin backend to functions like scheduling posts, password strength checking, allowing the creation of users and so on. While the core is responsible for the backend of a website and how it operates, themes are responsible for the front-end and how website’s look and feel. We use the WordPress admin to create posts, pages, and other site content, but exactly how our posts and pages are displayed to visitors is up to the theme. This gives you considerable power over your website. You might want to install and activate pre-built themes or break out of the box completely ...