You’ve begun editing code in your theme – That tutorial said, “Paste this in your functions.php file,” so you did. And it worked. And you’re excited – you’ve started editing the code in your theme. You should be excited – you’ve taken your first step in editing and writing code! Woohoo! Many of us did this same happy dance years ago. Some of us learned coding by starting out just like this. We’ve learned some lessons along the way – some of them painfully. Here are 10 points that, hopefully, will serve as steps to lead you into better coding as you move down the exciting path of WordPress development.