WordPress for Web Development

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to WordPress Design and Development

Lecture 1: Welcome to the course

Lecture 2: About the Instructor

Lecture 3: Quick Intro Activity

Lecture 4: Developing on a local server

Lecture 5: A review of the WordPress file structure

Lecture 6: Designing a simple theme

Lecture 7: Making the header and footer dynamic

Lecture 8: Working in wp-content fields

Lecture 9: You've created a simple theme

Chapter 2: Extending your theme

Lecture 1: Customizing your theme

Lecture 2: The WordPress Loop

Lecture 3: The WordPress Loop cont.

Lecture 4: Understanding the WordPress page templates

Lecture 5: Create menus

Lecture 6: Sidebars and widgets

Lecture 7: Create some custom page templates for your theme

Lecture 8: Create a theme thumbnail

Lecture 9: Make that theme yours

Lecture 10: Great job on the new theme!

Chapter 3: Filling out the theme and planning for errors

Lecture 1: Filling out your theme

Lecture 2: The 404 page

Lecture 3: Using "wp_query()" To Create a Catagory Page

Lecture 4: Create a search form template

Lecture 5: Creating a basic custom post type

Lecture 6: Displaying custom post types

Lecture 7: Creating your own custom post type

Lecture 8: WordPress is quite adaptable.

Chapter 4: Customizing your page

Lecture 1: Backgrounds and Custom Features

Lecture 2: Backgrounds, header images and custom logos-

Lecture 3: The post featured image

Lecture 4: Using the Customizer

Lecture 5: Organize your CSS

Lecture 6: Use a custom field to change a template component

Lecture 7: Custom Fields

Lecture 8: More control makes life easier

Chapter 5: Making the Website Mobile Friendly

Lecture 1: An introduction to media queries

Lecture 2: The Viewport Tag

Lecture 3: Why is "responsive" important

Lecture 4: Install Bootstrap

Lecture 5: Rows and columns

Lecture 6: Headlines and Typography

Lecture 7: Applying styles to your website

Lecture 8: What you just learned will help you with Child Themes

Chapter 6: A chip off the old block: child themes

Lecture 1: Easier and smarter ways to create WordPress themes

Lecture 2: Choosing the right parent theme

Lecture 3: Child Theme: Roll Your Own or use Pre-Built

Lecture 4: The Bare Necessities Of A Child Theme

Lecture 5: Pulling In The Parent's Framework

Lecture 6: Make the Child Theme Your Own

Lecture 7: Create your own CSS rules

Lecture 8: You Can Customize with CSS But We Want More!

Chapter 7: Training The Theme To Do Your Will

Lecture 1: Creating custom templates

Lecture 2: How Is the Parent Theme Organized?

Lecture 3: Choosing the Template Files We Will Need

Lecture 4: Customize The Header and Footer

Lecture 5: Page.php Template

Lecture 6: Page.php Template cont.

Lecture 7: Index and single templates

Lecture 8: Create your own page templates

Lecture 9: Child Themes Flexibility

Chapter 8: A child theme starts to grow up

Lecture 1: Growing your Child theme

Lecture 2: Create a Widget Page

Lecture 3: Get Comfortable with the Developer Tools

Lecture 4: Identify ID and Classes

Lecture 5: Where do your styles go

Lecture 6: Change the Styles Without Breaking the Site

Lecture 7: Differentating your Child theme

Lecture 8: Creating a Whole New Website In Half the Time

Chapter 9: Styling images in WordPress

Lecture 1: Add some style

Lecture 2: Creating custom image sizes

Lecture 3: Force the Quality of Worpress Images

Lecture 4: Image Links

Lecture 5: Styling Featured Images

Lecture 6: Replace the Color Swatches

Lecture 7: Make a custom image size for your featured image

Lecture 8: No Need to Accept the Status Quo

Chapter 10: Pushing WordPress Online

Lecture 1: Getting your WordPress Site Live

Lecture 2: Add Your Own Sidebars

Lecture 3: Multiple Posts Pages

Lecture 4: Categories and Tags on Pages

Lecture 5: Change the Copyright Line

Lecture 6: Preparing to move WordPress to a live server

Lecture 7: Ready to go live?

Lecture 8: Two Ways to Build WordPress Sites