Title: Now I'm Learning PHP!
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Now I'm Learning PHP!

 *  Plugin Author [Stephen Edgar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweb/)
 * (@netweb)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/learning-php-1/)
 * For 8 years I had managed a site running a blog based on MT 3.2 and phpBB 2.x/
   3.x and the security and maintenance of these two alone was constantly annoying
   and complex.
 * Thus I picked WordPress as the replacement for the MT blog and were also looking
   for an option to replace the phpBB forum. I bump into bbPress which had at that
   time just become a plugin for WordPress and I found it could do ~95% of what 
   my forum users would need.
 * Now I’m helping out moderating [http://bbpress.org](http://bbpress.org), helping
   out others where I can, writing custom filters and plugins for WordPress and 
   bbPress and contributing back to the bbPress core project making bbPress better
   with every new version.
 * I didn’t set out to learn PHP with any of the goals above, though I am now albeit
   at my own casual pace and this is in no doubt because of the excellent code that
   is bbPress and by proxy [@jjj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjj/)’s ability
   to write great documentation alongside the core code.
 * Cheers,
 * Stephen Edgar
    Netweb Interactive

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 *  Plugin Author [John James Jacoby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnjamesjacoby/)
 * (@johnjamesjacoby)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/learning-php-1/#post-7728803)
 * Thanks for the kind words Stephen, and thanks for helping out around the forums
   and for your contributions to bbPress. 🙂

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