What is PHP? PHP is a scripting and computer language that allows you to create dynamic, interactive webpages. The PHP scripting language is used to create WordPress. PHP, like WordPress, is an open source project. PHP is a server-side language, which means it runs on the server where your website is hosted. When someone visits your website, their browser makes a request to your server for the page. The PHP code runs on the server and produces an HTML page for the visitor to view. The HTML page is subsequently shown in the visitor's browser. Because the PHP script is only on the hosting server, they can't see it. How Does WordPress Use PHP? WordPress is powered by PHP code. A MySQL database contains all of the information on a WordPress website. Everything from your blog name and article content to your plugin settings and user profile information is included in this data. PHP's role is to extract certain data from a database and assemble it into an HTML web page. See our ...