“Scare yourself once in a while, by trying new things. It makes life less dull” – Matthew Kepnes
It’s been a month that I have been working on WordPress Development as a training program with StartUp. Tech lead and WP developer is mentoring me for the same.
So WordPress is mainly known as a blogging platform, but it is also known as a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. In Simple Words, it’s a tool which make things a lot easier for a developer to build a website.
The very first Day on the project both, gave me an insight about the WordPress and how it really works. It was fascinating to see how easy it was to develop websites with WordPress. It really kills a lot of code work for you but I must say the hierarchy the and file structure of the CMS can be so confusing and difficult to understand but the guidance from both the developers throughout the process helped me a lot.
After the deep briefing about the environment and structure system of WordPress, we decided to set our goals for the project.
- Install WordPress locally
- Take an existing HTML website and convert it into a custom WordPress theme.
- Development of Plugins
- Deployment of the project in the server space
So my task was to build a WordPress custom theme from an existing Event Management website which manages to create events, add and invite a guest for the event by sending emails and also manages to show their response to the invitation.
After discussing very briefly about the task that I have to perform tech lead gave some ideas about how I should start and what will be my priorities. He suggested to dissect the project into modules and then start working on it because then it will easy for me to understand the environment of WordPress.
I was very curious and excited to work on this project but to be honest, I was little scared too because WordPress is totally new for me but I think Somehow Matthew Kepnes is absolutely right about life, We should scare ourselves by trying new things because then only we are going to innovate and progress in our lives.
So here in my upcoming posts, I am going to share about my experience, difficulties challenges that I faced while working on WordPress and how I overcome them and also how easy web development has become for me after working on WordPress.