WordPress—A Complete Guide
Gain insights into building custom WordPress themes using PHP and JavaScript. Delve into theme basics, advanced post types, and dynamic sites via the WordPress REST API to expand job opportunities.
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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 theme. Then, you will move on to advanced topics such as creating your post types, querying the WordPress database with custom arguments, and linking content using post type relationships.
Next, you will learn how to make dynamic websites using JavaScript to interact with the WordPress REST API. By the end of this course, you will have a wide set of tools to work with to build whatever you can imagine with WordPress.
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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
Hands-on experience in creating custom and interactive themes using WordPress
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