[wp-hackers] Learning WordPress and Getting Support

[Aero Maxx]

I can understand how that is good and helps you learn, but at the same 
time its hard to get focussed on other peoples questions that may not 
have anything to do with your problems or things you wish to do, and 
therefore then hard to get anything done.

I've bookmarked the links that you mention though thank you very much 
for those.

On 14/12/2012 23:20, Andrew Bartel wrote:
> Aero,
>
> With the caveat that I'm only seven months into developing with WordPress,
> I started with the database diagram (
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description) in addition to following
> the load code through starting at the root index.php.  I spent a lot of
> time reading stack exchange and the WordPress forums.  If a question was
> asked on either that I didn't know the answer to I'd work through it on our
> dev server.  Mostly, I built a few WordPress sites and referred to
> "official" good code like the starter themes whenever I was unsure of best
> practices.  Now, when I run into a function that I haven't seen before, I
> reference the codex.
>
> This was the most useful post I ever came across, although it was pretty
> over my head the first time I read it despite what I thought was a pretty
> good understanding of ajax:
> http://www.garyc40.com/2010/03/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/
>
> I recently saw this really useful presentation by Andrew Nacin about
> queries that was referenced in a discussion about query_posts():
> http://wordpress.tv/2012/06/15/andrew-nacin-wp_query/
>
> Best of luck.
>
> -Andrew Bartel
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Shasta Willson <shastaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd start with tutorials. Check the comments on any tutorial before
>> you start -- did it work for most folks? And check the date.  If it's
>> more than a year old things have probably changed.  Have real projects
>> you want to accomplish, be willing to be flexible about them, and find
>> tutorials where you learn to do things.  As you're working, go check
>> the codex for the things you're learning.  You need to learn your way
>> around the codex as it's the "user manual". It'll also clue you in
>> when a tutorial isn't doing something the 'right' way, which plenty
>> don't.  If the codex says "don't do this" and the tutorial says do, go
>> find another tutorial.
>>
>> Use the Wordpress forums for specific questions that crop up, but the
>> last year or so responses have dropped off a cliff when I ask
>> something there. It may be because I'm asking more advanced questions,
>> rather than that the forums have changed.  I'm honestly not sure.
>>
>> - Shasta
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Whats the best way to learn the wordpress way of doing things and getting
>>> support when get stuck, as getting limited to no help via this mailing
>> list
>>> is there something else or another way I should be going about this, how
>> did
>>> you all get to where you are today and learn the ins and outs of
>> wordpress
>>> and how to do things within it and its functions.
>>>
>>> I've tried stack exchange generally get no answers there either, and have
>>> also tried the wordpress support forums, sadly the same there too,
>> generally
>>> get no meaningful answers.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Daniel.
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