WordPress Development Asked on February 5, 2021
OK so everyone must ask how to see the php source code sometime and I asked it to myself too.
and yes I know it that the php is processed by the server before outputting it to web page, so with that in mind, is there any way I can actually see what the php code looks like when a page is requested and before it goes into my own web server and is processed?
I’ve got access to my server and the config etc so I can’t see why this wouldn’t be possible, but I wouldn’t know how?
Yep, of course that's possible. There are several ways of viewing the php source code of your theme, of your plugins and of WordPress itself.
I assume that you are interested in the php code of your theme - that's mostly what's generating the public facing HTML that gets served to the site visitor's browser.
The tricky part is to know which file is actually producing a given page. For this, WordPress theme developers like to refer to a graph the visualizes the Template Hierarchy, such as this one:
This picture shows the processing logic of a WordPress theme, and helps you understand what file to look after. For instance, if you are looking at a Page content type (not the same as a Post), it is most likely produced by the page.php
file included in your active theme.
Once you know that, there are several ways to view the code:
wp-content/themes/name-of-your-theme/
.Finally, an important concept to understand is that your actual content isn't stored in the php files - it's saved to the database. That explains how a single template, such as page.php
, can display dozens or hundreds of different pages.
Answered by Manu on February 5, 2021
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