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How WordPress works under the hood - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: WP-CLI
How WordPress works under the hood
- [Instructor] Before we get into WP-CLI, you should understand how WordPress works under the hood because it will help you understand how WP-CLI works in general and get a feel for its capabilities. Most of the time, you'll be interacting with WordPress through a browser and a graphical user interface. When you click something in the interface, your browser tells the server to execute some code and return that result. We'll call this the top-down approach. We're starting at the top-most layer, the browser, and then moving down to the PHP and MySQL layer right through to the server layer. For the most part, WP-CLI commands can be mapped to actions within the WordPress dashboard or functions of WordPress plugins that introduce support for WP-CLI. That's because WP-CLI is using the server to execute WordPress code. So instead of you clicking a plugin's add new to run some WordPress code, you can type wp plugin install and…
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