No. You should be able to use Word­Press through the user inter­face, wit­hout ever having to touch PHP.

The only time you would modify your Word­Press web­site with PHP would be when inte­gra­ting some of the plugins.

Word­Press was pri­ma­rily inspired by Noah Grey’s Grey­matter open-source web log and journal soft­ware. It is related to b2, sort of a second cousin twice removed. You can use Word­Press to post your own stories,

Word­Press is open source web soft­ware that you can install on your web server to create your web­site, blog, com­mu­nity or net­work. Word­Press started out as a tool for blog­ging, but has evolved into a full-fledged Con­tent Manage­ment System (CMS), capable of powe­ring websites,