Knowing A Little Code Goes A long Way

I'm sure by now many of you have run in to problems in your pages and posts. "Why is that picture right there!", "Why is there a huge gap between a certain paragraph!"

This can be one of the most anoying parts of trying to build your site. When your working with WordPress, each keystroke is being turned in to code in your text editor.

Even just hiting the enter/return key is placing code, so that the internet knows what you text is supposed to look like. Being able to understand what that code means can save you a world of aggrevation.

When I first started working with WordPress this drove me so crazy! I would sometimes spend days trying to figure out what was going on, when all I wanted to do was work on my business.

I started learning coding a couple years ago, in just a few weeks I was already understanding the coding in WordPress and issues that used to take hours or days were resolved in seconds.

While coding is not for everyone, I highly recommend learning enough to know what you are looking at.

Here is one of my favorite free sites to learn different coding languages.

http://www.codecademy.com/

They cover just about anything you would wanna learn in a very simple step by step fashion. WordPress uses a combination of HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. I recommend getting your feet wet with all these languages, they are all similar in certain ways and once you know a little about one language the others start making more sense.