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WordPress

Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points
Posted by Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points

Difference between WordPress and HTML/CSS Tracks?

What is the difference between the two tracks? Which is better to use? Am i missing out features if i stay on HTML/CSS track ??

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

just letting you know that I updated your question to make sure people knew you were asking about the two Tracks. was a little confusing otherwise

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Wordpress is a content management system, html and css are just languages for building websites. All wordpress themes require html and css, so it's a good idea to get at least a basic, solid understanding of html and css before moving on to anything else.

If you want to get into wordpress later, that's great. You'll learn how to dynamically add new content to a website, without actually having to write more code.

Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points
Akhter Rasool
Akhter Rasool
8,597 Points

Do websites like Treehouse, Apple, Microsoft, use Wordpress ?

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

No, they don't.

Millions of websites do use Wordpress. It's probably the most widely used content management system today. But sites like Treehouse, Apple, and Microsoft are 100% using their own custom content management system. They might be using a MVC framework, for instantance it looks like Treehouse is using the Rails MVC framework. Apple and Microsoft are using whatever they are using, but I guarantee that what they need is so specific, it's custom.

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

You probably do need to go with the Web Design track first.

There is a steep learning curve with Wordpress Development in particular as you will be working with PHP a lot and I recall there's no listing of any of the web design courses on the Wordpress track.

I would recommend the following path for Wordpress

  • Web Design Track
  • PHP track
  • Learn Wordpress
  • and if you like Wordpress Development