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WordPress Development for Beginners: “Does the User See It?”

Getting started with WordPress development can be disorienting. As I’ve written, software development (including WordPress development) is a lot like caving, and trying to do your first WordPress development project can be like waking up somewhere in the middle of a dark cave and trying to figure it out from there.

What we need to get started in WordPress development is to get oriented. In a cave, we’d want to start by knowing one very simple thing: “Does this lead toward the entrance, or further into the cave?”

For a beginner WordPress developer, we can get oriented by asking, “Does the user see it?”

From my start as a beginner WordPress developer until now, I’ve found that WordPress has a similar orienting principle, which can help us get a rough sense of where we are even if there’s lots around us we don’t understand.

That principle is: “Does the user see it?”

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Fred Meyer
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