{"id":14054,"date":"2015-04-10T05:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=14054"},"modified":"2015-04-10T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:05:43","slug":"wordpress-blog-category-list-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-blog-category-list-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Blog Category List Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WordPress Blog Category List Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

You may well be aware that a WordPress blog, such as the one you are viewing, has a MySql database which is like its signature … well, more than a signature … basically most of its identity, because no matter what styling and theming you apply (and in any case some of the styling and theming ideas get stored in the database as well) the data behind the blog is what makes it what it is.<\/p>\n

The WordPress PHP software has a “Fred and Ginger”<\/a> relationship with its MySql database. Who’s Fred, and who’s Ginger? … leave that for you.<\/p>\n

But as with most decent dances you used to be able to tap somebody on the shoulder and ask for a changed arrangement … are you all rolling around on the floor yet? … the older of us have gone to the fridge to get a banana muffin I expect?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, to cut a long story short, we are going to separate ourselves from WordPress PHP, and write our own, that sits outside and makes changes to the WordPress blog by adjusting the WordPress blog’s MySql database from this removed position. Okay, if you want to be dramatic … “in a backdoor way”. And what do you need to do this?<\/p>\n