I have just started working with wordpress. I am hoping to ask this question while still staying in compliance of this site. I will be looking for fact not discussion or suggestions.
I get a little confused about what is a wordpress features and what is a feature of a theme.
For example if something is a feature of wordpress is post. You can call a wordpress api function and this will print out data that wordpress provides. But something like a slider and the images contained is a feature of the theme..(for the most part. unless it's post pics)
I just wanted to get a complete knowledge or summary of the features of wordpress.
The ability to print out the post is one feature
The ability to paginate post is this also a feature of something that the theme need to provide. I believe the theme would have to provide the buttons but wordpress would do the pagination. The reason i Assume this is because a php framework like laravel does suppost this feature just wondering if this is also true here.
If it does support pagination when you request more from an ajax call is this handled by your own function in your function.php or would you need to make a seperate url. Normal framework you would do a separate url but doesn't seem liek wordpress would give you this feature.
For the Featured post is this something that is a part of wordpress that would track your most recent post and display that list of feature post or is this something the theme developer would have to implement them self.
Wordpress has a database does the theme developer has access to this database to create there own table and navigate the database. This seems like it should be doable because it is just plain php at times so nothing too fancy. Do people do this. How would they avoid conflicting table names and things of that nature.
"sigh really hate mysqlconnect and PDO tickles my interest but not really".
If there is some wordpress guru out there thanks for all the help and the clarification. Hopefully this will full help other realize what exactly is the power of WordPress and what is the power of a plugin or a theme.
Thank for all the help.
