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Databases SQL Basics Data, Databases and SQL Why This Course?

Obayanju Damilare
Obayanju Damilare
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Obayanju Damilare
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SQL for WORDPRESS THEME DEVELOPMENT

Hi, I wanted to ask if I need SQL to learn WordPress Theme Development. Thanks for your answer in advance:)

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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Shadd is wrong. It depends on the theme and what it does. The WordPress native functions/classes like wpdb simply allow you to write less code but you'll still need to know MYSQL to write queries. If you are doing any database work in your theme it is a must.

Source: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb and I worked on big WordPress projects before.

Shadd Anderson
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Shadd Anderson
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For developers, most of the time they use SQL, they're not even aware they're using it. I'm not all too aware of WordPress, but I know that most of the time you'll ever save anything to a database, there's already an API that does it for you without you ever having to write a single line of SQL. You can create custom queries for specific things, but the basics are often already implemented.

All that being said, having a basic working knowledge of SQL can't hurt, especially if you want to better understand what these APIs are doing behind the scenes, and to help you write those custom queries.

Hope that answers your question :)