Will this help with Wordpress development?

Hey Gaz,

It'll probably help a little bit because you'll be able to better understand PHP and databases. WordPress is essentially a PHP application that stores all of its information in databases. That said, the theme file structure isn't related that closely to database schema.

Essentially, if you're interested in PHP and databases generally, definitely explore more here. If you're more concerned with just WordPress, it may be helpful to focus on that first before getting into the foundational PHP elements.

I agree with Austin. If you're just wanting to write themes for wordpress, the other php courses are a better bet, because in theme, you are generally not creating extra functionality, you're just calling predefined functions to add and read data from the database.

If you want to get into writting your own wordpress plugins, than learning about php and databases becomes more important, as it would be quite common as a plugin developer to store data inside of wordpress's scheme, and this course would help you understand what and how it's doing it.

Wow thanks for super fast reply Austin. Yeah I'm mainly interested in the whole Wordpress and functionality. I've been creating client sites for several year now using Wordpress themes and really would like to know how the inner files are created. Ie. A better understanding of the coding, markup. When viewing the themes directories they are all mostly .php. I've covered most of the courses here on Wordpress, however they don't seem to explain what I'm looking for :/

Thanks Gaz