Become a WordPress Developer

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Basic WordPress Environment

Lecture 1: Editor of Choice

Lecture 2: Local By Flywheel

Lecture 3: Local Server

Lecture 4: Installing WordPress

Chapter 2: Codex & Standards

Lecture 1: Codex

Lecture 2: Code Reference

Lecture 3: Plugin Handbook

Lecture 4: Theme Handbook

Lecture 5: WordPress Standards

Chapter 3: Plugin API

Lecture 1: What is the Plugin API?

Lecture 2: Actions

Lecture 3: Filters

Chapter 4: Resources

Lecture 1: eBooks

Lecture 2: Freemius eBook

Lecture 3: Interview: Kobe Ben Itamar, Co-Founder of Freemius

Chapter 5: Simple Theme Devleopment

Lecture 1: Starting the Theme

Lecture 2: Our first index.php

Lecture 3: Displaying Posts inside the index.php

Lecture 4: CSS First Steps & Adding it to our theme

Lecture 5: Theme Functions

Lecture 6: Title & HTML5 Support

Lecture 7: Separating Header & Footer

Lecture 8: Header & Menu

Lecture 9: Post Content

Lecture 10: Template Tags & Styling the Post Content

Lecture 11: Adding Author Info to the Post Template

Lecture 12: Footer

Lecture 13: Adding Secondary Menu to the Footer

Lecture 14: Adding Widgets to our Footer

Chapter 6: Theme Development (HTML to WP)

Lecture 1: Template (ZIP)

Lecture 2: Starter Themes

Lecture 3: WPGulp & WPGulpTheme

Lecture 4: Preparing Styles & Images

Lecture 5: Preparing Scripts

Lecture 6: Header

Lecture 7: Creating the Front Page & Footer

Lecture 8: Front Page – About Section

Lecture 9: Front Page – Building a Customizer Repeater Control (HTML, PHP)

Lecture 10: Front Page – Building a Customizer Repeater Control (JavaScript)

Lecture 11: Front Page – Other Sections

Lecture 12: Blog Layout – Preparing the Settings

Lecture 13: Blog Layout – HTML & PHP

Lecture 14: Blog Layout – CSS

Lecture 15: Pagination

Lecture 16: Sidebar

Lecture 17: Single Post

Lecture 18: Single Post – Sidebar

Lecture 19: Single Post – Responsive Header Image

Lecture 20: Single Post – Comment Form

Lecture 21: Single Post – Comments

Lecture 22: Footer

Lecture 23: Footer – Social Media

Lecture 24: Page & Refactoring Content

Lecture 25: Page & Post Templates

Lecture 26: Post Formats – Audio

Lecture 27: Post Formats – Video

Lecture 28: Post Formats – Gallery

Lecture 29: Not Found (404) Page

Lecture 30: Contact Form – Sidebar

Lecture 31: Contact Form – Preparing

Lecture 32: Contact Form – Error Check

Lecture 33: Contact Form – Sending Email

Lecture 34: Contact Form – JavaScript

Lecture 35: Contact Form – AJAX

Chapter 7: Simple Plugin Development

Lecture 1: Creating the Plugin Base

Lecture 2: Creating the Custom Post Type

Lecture 3: Adding a Metabox

Lecture 4: Adding a Dropdown with all Pages & Posts

Lecture 5: Saving the Dropdown Value

Lecture 6: Retrieving the Custom Post Types at the bottom of a page or post

Lecture 7: Displaying the Retrieved Custom Post Type

Lecture 8: Enqueueing CSS and Styling the Posts

Chapter 8: Food Menu (Plugin Development)

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating the Post Type

Lecture 3: Creating Categories

Lecture 4: Fixing the Category Error (& Explanation)

Lecture 5: Adding the Price Box

Lecture 6: Saving the Price

Lecture 7: Displaying Menu Items

Lecture 8: Displaying Food Categories

Lecture 9: Adding Food Content to Single Food Page

Lecture 10: Adding Style

Lecture 11: Adding Category Links

Lecture 12: Showing Ingredients

Lecture 13: Introducing Food Menu Builder for Customers

Lecture 14: Food Menu Builder – Settings Page

Lecture 15: Food Menu Builder – Page Option

Lecture 16: Food Menu Builder – Shortcode

Lecture 17: Refactoring the plugin with folder & file structure

Lecture 18: Food Menu Builder – Initialisation

Lecture 19: Food Menu Builder – List the Menu

Lecture 20: Food Menu Builder – Creating the container for chosen items