OK, so WordPress is not PHP, fair enough. But rather than just slamming noobs on this common mistake, one blogger takes it upon himself to explain how people are misunderstanding this in the first place.

There have many concerns and question about the template system used in WordPress. Mostly the concerns are with n00bs and the complications of PHP. “I want to change this and that, but don’t know PHP”. I hear this a lot. But the thing is, you don’t need to know PHP to change the Templates in WordPress.

The Template System

Lets’ start with “the Loop” as we call it. Probably the most confusing part of the Template for a non-programmer. The Loop looks like this: [Read the rest]