WordPress—A Complete Guide

Beginner

84 Lessons

25h

Certificate of Completion

AI-POWERED

Explanations

This course includes

65 Playgrounds

188 Illustrations

This course includes

65 Playgrounds

188 Illustrations

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

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

Working with Images

4 Lessons

JavaScript for WordPress

4 Lessons

WordPress REST API

4 Lessons

Custom REST API

4 Lessons

Non-JavaScript Search

2 Lessons

CRUD Operations on the WordPress REST API

6 Lessons

User Roles and Permissions

5 Lessons

WordPress Block Editor

11 Lessons

Plugin Development

5 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Appendix

4 Lessons

COURSE AUTHOR

How You'll Learn

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