Mini-Lesson: Templates & Dynamic HTML

Key Ideas:

• WordPress snaps together reusable template files to build each page
• The server assembles the final HTML by combining templates with live content
• PHP lets WordPress generate pages that change based on users and data
• Templates pull in dynamic content, so the HTML updates automatically as the site changes
• Click here to see an example of PHP next to the HTML it generates: PHP & HTML Example

Vocabulary:

• client
• dynamic page
• request
• response
• render
• template
• server

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