How to Edit WordPress Code (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript)

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Published 2021-06-21
Editing code in WordPress doesn't have to be hard! Check out this easy guide on how to tweak HTML, CSS, and PHP. 🤓
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While WordPress makes it easy for non-coders to manage a website, there will probably come a time when you want to edit code in WordPress to get a little more control over how your site looks or functions.

To help you do that, this video will show you how to safely edit code in WordPress in a few different ways. You'll learn how to edit CSS to customize your page, how to edit your theme's PHP and HTML codes, and how to edit single pages or posts. Press play! ▶️

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 How to Edit WordPress Code
0:49 How You Can Edit WordPress Code
1:28 How to Edit WordPress HTML in Gutenberg
2:32 How to Edit WordPress HTML in Classic Editor
2:39 How to Edit the Source Code in Your WordPress Theme
5:39 How to Add Custom CSS to WordPress

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📚Resources

📙 Full Guide on How to Edit WordPress Code (HTML, CSS and PHP)
kinsta.com/knowledgebase/edit-wordpress-code/

📚 10 Free HTML Editors on the Market for WordPress Developers and Advanced Users
kinsta.com/blog/free-html-editor/

👉 23 Best PHP Editors and IDEs
kinsta.com/blog/php-editor/


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All Comments (21)
  • @rudy5251
    TNice tutorials is actually a very good and straight forward tutorial. No having ask questions or guess, no over-explaining elents, and brings
  • Screen presence, Explanation and quality of this video is soo soothing to mind. You deserve millions of subscribers.. Good Luck and Thanks for Video
  • Got a notebook and took notes... I’m making it out the hood
  • @lordz00
    Nice vid, I'll be looking into it soon!
  • @HaifengZhu-pn3uq
    hi, apart from html, css, js and php, what other codes will be used in wordpress development?
  • thank you for the information, can I edit the html for dynamic blocks, and how to do it.
  • even though this is a simple tutorial there are one or two absolute gems in there you gonna need in your tool box.
  • Could you please advice how to get the full version and the evms!
  • How do i correctly add a canonical tag to the html code on a wordpress post? I tried utilizing yoast seo to fix some duplicate canonical errors but they still seem to be showing up, so thought maybe id have to go to the source or put it in the html. Thanks
  • Great tutorial for begginers as myself! I do worry about updating though. If I make a child theme and the parent theme upgrades, will those changes be carried to the child theme? Is there a manual process?
  • @Daniel-2275
    I'm trying to learn even though I only have fruity edition instead of the producer edition