Learning Journal

Week 9, 10 and 11

For weeks 9, 10 and the whole week 11, We learned a lot of things and it’s interesting to know everything how the website works and how it makes it worked.

Week 11

Yay!!!! We are learning so much! Thankfully, we have been repeating the process of copy and pasting info so hopefully I’ll finally get the loops down.

Wow Week 12 already

this week i learned how we can change a theme just by using php. How we can create a whole new theme from the same files just by using php and making some changes to css.

Omg, it’s already week 12!

We’ve learned and practiced a lot in the past few weeks. I actually think that the last time I was here we hadn’t even started to build WordPress themes yet. Now, we are pros! jk

Well, we are definitely getting there, though! Especially if we keep practicing as we have been…

Llamas, Llamas Everywhere

This week, we looked at transforming HTML website layouts into themes we could integrate into WordPress.

It seems like its been sometime since I last posted here, but perhaps that’s just life… Anywho, llama sites! It all started with the llama sites and now has transformed into something more intimidating, or so it appears.

It all started with the llama sites and having the header and footer all figured out and then we put “the loop” (creates blog posts or really any place where you wish to have customizable text) in the code.

For some reason, when you start with a llama site and then have the challenge of doing THE SAME thing but with a more complex looking header and footer, my mind goes blank. Literally last Tuesday, it was as if I had never seen code before. Not sure what happened. By Thursday, we transitioned last semester’s Concentric site into a theme WordPress would read.

Creating all those pages – essentially three different layouts – made the redundancy of the tasks stick into my brain. I was able to do the front page of the site on my own!

It really… honestly… shows that practice, practice, and practice, is not some cliche. There’s no epiphany here. I just need to get this more into my life. Not sure why I pass it off so easily, but it needs to become a fixture.

Oh, llamas!

Week 8 was a good start of building a basic llama theme and converting it to a WordPress Theme.

OMG! So much to learn

It has been wonderful these last few weeks repeating the llama site!

This week’s theme: CRUD

CRUD is the theme also theme is the theme this week.

From the last two weeks in class we learned about how to do CRUD and make themes. Now don’t let the name fool you or misread this as themes are CRUD. Because learning about themes and CRUD are the exact opposite of what it sounds like and I can tell you How.

Week 8 what i learned

this week i learned that i need to take a deep breath and calm down before i try to fix a problem with my phps. php can be super picky if i don’t make sure i am using the right file.

I’ve Got CRUD

The past couple weeks we covered databases to give us some insight into how WordPress works. For that, we went through the four phases of CRUD – Creating, reading, Updating, and Deleting databases.

Week 7 & 8: Practicing PHP

During the last two weeks we were busy writing PHP and going through the four steps of CRUD. We also had our midterm!

PHP N’ Me

This week, we learned more about PHP, with which I had only minimal experience previously.

Week 7 & 8

For this week 7 and the whole week 8, We kept working on PHP. Again, it’s a little bit confusing but slowly I understand the process and how this PHP works through, especially in making a record in the database.

Week 6

For week 6, I learned about “php” but at first, I literary confused because of a lot of coding that I just meet up and it’s not familiar for me. But in the latter part of the class, I slowly got the idea of how PHP work best in web design. But still, I need to familiarize and practice this so I can be used to it.

Week 5

For week 5. I learned a lot for this week especially Bill introduced to us about the page builder and for me, the Elementor is quite interesting. It wasn’t clear enough for me on how to be used it first, but when I try myself using it, I notice it’s had a lot of things you can do to your webpage using the elementor. It’s fun! You can modify your webpage design even though you are using a template.