Oh, gosh, you know PHP...would I be able to ask you for a touch of PHP assistance? Ordinarily I wouldn't be so crass but it's for a burlesque dancer's Wordpress blog, so at least you can have your brain heat up for a GOOD reason.
I'm not sure I have the skillz (that's right, I spelled that with a "z") to do surgery on Wordpress yet, but ask and if I can help, I will! You can email me at mike at my lj username dot com.
What does the error say? Can you copy and paste the error message, and send me a copy of the file it's having trouble with? It could be something really simple like a punctuation mark in the wrong place.
I forget whether you already know any other programming languages or not. If you need any pointers on PHP, let me know. And if that's a silly offer, my apologies.
I've learned a tiny bit of ActionScript 2 and 3 with a minor foray into OOP ActionScript, but those attempts always dead-ended because of incoming work that didn't involve Actionscript. And by the time I got back to it enough time had gone by that I had to start over from scratch. I'm making a lot more progress with PHP, and I intend to dig into JavaScript after I can take the PHP training wheels off.
So thanks for the offer, it's not silly, and I predict I'll be taking you up on it (hopefully not to the point where you regret making it though).
that's the #1 tricky thing about learning programming from a book: all examples don't work, for different reasons. Keep with it, tracing out the code is *very* useful practice even if the specific bit never gets fixed correctly :)
I've had great luck with StackOverflow.com. Zillions of really good questions, with many correct and insightful answers. Have fun!
I guess it serves to weed out the people who don't have the fortitude to keep at it until they get it.
Another one of my techniques to understand something tricky is to write out the purpose/procedure of the sample code in narrative form. This helps define the boundary between the parts I uderstand and those I don't, which makes it easier to hunt down useful answers.
My big question now is whether there are any shortcuts to learning best practices. Some of the things I want to accomplish in code can be approached a multitude of ways. Without a lot of experience it's hard to see what the potential strengths and weaknesses are of different methods for achieving the same result.
I think 90% of programming is to ignore nearly everything that's presented. That is, experience tells you which tiny bits within the swamp are useful, and focus on them. If they don't put out, then focus on something else. :)
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Is it in a plugin, or something custom?
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So thanks for the offer, it's not silly, and I predict I'll be taking you up on it (hopefully not to the point where you regret making it though).
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I've had great luck with StackOverflow.com. Zillions of really good questions, with many correct and insightful answers. Have fun!
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Another one of my techniques to understand something tricky is to write out the purpose/procedure of the sample code in narrative form. This helps define the boundary between the parts I uderstand and those I don't, which makes it easier to hunt down useful answers.
My big question now is whether there are any shortcuts to learning best practices. Some of the things I want to accomplish in code can be approached a multitude of ways. Without a lot of experience it's hard to see what the potential strengths and weaknesses are of different methods for achieving the same result.
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