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Jaime Rios
Courses Plus Student 21,100 PointsAs a Front End Developer, is relational data bases the best way to go?
I'm just starting to know about databases
4 Answers
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsI built a beginning wordpress site and converted it to Joomla with much more complexity and knew 0 database. I think the basics are great, but do not worry too much about that right now. Come back to it when you have met your more immediate goals.
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsPHP, Python, Java, and databases are back end. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are front end.
Jaime Rios
Courses Plus Student 21,100 PointsSo if I'm trying to learn wordpress themes, should I still learn databases?
jason chan
31,009 Pointsdatabases are backend development.
front end dev is GUI
jason chan
31,009 Pointsuh you should learn databases if you want to transfer hosting to different host with your wordpress theme or in case you lock yourself out. Other than that. Nah.. But you can write a blog post entirely in sql. LOLs.
Long story short. Yes, learn the basics and how it works because you will come across using databases once and while.
jason chan
31,009 Pointsjason chan
31,009 Pointswordpress is fine. As long you don't 10k eyeballs one single sess.
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsTed Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsI couldn't make Wordpress do what I wanted functionally. Joomla was very easy for me, although I didn't know enough about CSS to customize the look of either one.