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WordPress—A Complete Guide

Beginner

84 Lessons

25h

Certificate of Completion

AI-POWERED

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This course includes

65 Playgrounds

This course includes

65 Playgrounds

Course Overview

Expertise in creating interactive WordPress themes is highly sought after and will help open up many job opportunities for you. In this course, you will learn PHP and JavaScript to code your way toward building custom solutions for your clients. You’ll start with the basics of a WordPress theme, including blog listing, single posts, and archive pages, by creating a website for a fictitious school using an HTML template, thereby learning how to convert any static HTML template into an interactive WordPress ...Show More

What You'll Learn

Hands-on experience in creating custom and interactive themes using WordPress

Familiarity with PHP to manipulate the data of WordPress websites

Working knowledge of JavaScript to perform actions in real time

The ability to convert any static HTML template to an interactive WordPress theme

The ability to leverage the WordPress REST API and create custom REST routes

What You'll Learn

Hands-on experience in creating custom and interactive themes using WordPress

Course Content

Getting Started

Overview

Introduction

WordPress Development Environment Creating a Website in WordPress Creating a Custom Theme Template Hierarchy PHP for WordPress

Theme files

The WordPress Loop Single Post and Page Template Header and Footer Template

Customizing WordPress Theme

Using HTML Template for Home Page: Part I Using HTML Template for the Home Page: Part II Using HTML Template for Interior Pages Page Hierarchy Navigation Menus

Basic Website Design

Designing the Home Page Designing the Blog Page Design Single Blog Post Page Designing the Archive Page

Custom Post Types

3 Lessons

Custom Fields

4 Lessons

Custom Queries

6 Lessons

Relationships between Post Types

3 Lessons

10.

Working with Images

4 Lessons

11.

JavaScript for WordPress

4 Lessons

12.

WordPress REST API

4 Lessons

13.

Custom REST API

4 Lessons

14.

Non-JavaScript Search

2 Lessons

15.

CRUD Operations on the WordPress REST API

6 Lessons

16.

User Roles and Permissions

5 Lessons

17.

WordPress Block Editor

11 Lessons

18.

Plugin Development

5 Lessons

19.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

20.

Appendix

4 Lessons

Course Author

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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