Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code

Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code, available at $94.99, has an average rating of 4.71, with 234 lectures, based on 24973 reviews, and has 114414 subscribers.

You will learn about Why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress The ability to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site The ability to write JavaScript to add on-the-fly interactivity to a WordPress site How to code your own new custom block types for the "Gutenberg" Block Editor The skills, knowledge and vocabulary to work professionally as a WordPress developer This course is ideal for individuals who are Developers who want to use WordPress as a true Content Management System and not "just a blog platform." or Those looking to learn the PHP and JavaScript languages. or People who want to learn about the "REST API" which allows us to interact with WordPress data on-the-fly in realtime. or Anyone interested in custom post types, custom fields, and creating relationships between various content types. It is particularly useful for Developers who want to use WordPress as a true Content Management System and not "just a blog platform." or Those looking to learn the PHP and JavaScript languages. or People who want to learn about the "REST API" which allows us to interact with WordPress data on-the-fly in realtime. or Anyone interested in custom post types, custom fields, and creating relationships between various content types.

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Summary

Title: Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code

Price: $94.99

Average Rating: 4.71

Number of Lectures: 234

Number of Published Lectures: 234

Number of Curriculum Items: 234

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 234

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress
The ability to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site
The ability to write JavaScript to add on-the-fly interactivity to a WordPress site
How to code your own new custom block types for the "Gutenberg" Block Editor
The skills, knowledge and vocabulary to work professionally as a WordPress developer

Who Should Attend

Developers who want to use WordPress as a true Content Management System and not "just a blog platform."
Those looking to learn the PHP and JavaScript languages.
People who want to learn about the "REST API" which allows us to interact with WordPress data on-the-fly in realtime.
Anyone interested in custom post types, custom fields, and creating relationships between various content types.

Target Audiences

Developers who want to use WordPress as a true Content Management System and not "just a blog platform."
Those looking to learn the PHP and JavaScript languages.
People who want to learn about the "REST API" which allows us to interact with WordPress data on-the-fly in realtime.
Anyone interested in custom post types, custom fields, and creating relationships between various content types.

Unlock the full power of WordPress and go beyond “just a blog platform” by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites.

Updated for 2024: New chapters about The Interactivity API, Block Themes, Full Site Editing, Gutenberg Block Type Creation, Plugin Development, React.js basics, custom MySQL essentials, and more!

I’ve spent the last 12 years studying WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript and now I’m here to teach you everything I know. Come along on this journey with me and become a WordPress developer.

Together we will build a website for a fictional university and along the way we will:

Install WordPress on your personal computer so you have a private playground copy of WordPress to practice and experiment with
Get introduced to the PHP language (this is what powers WordPress)
Set Up a New Theme (You’ll learn how to convert any HTML template into a living breathing WordPress theme)
Create Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
Relate pieces of content with each other (e.g. a professor and a program)
Learn the basics of (object-oriented) JavaScript
Leverage the WP REST API
Learn to use JavaScript to communicate with the WordPress back-end on-the-fly
Let visitors sign up for a basic account on our site
Build a “My Notes” feature (user specific single page application with real-time CRUD actions)
Let users “like” or “heart” a professor (update the professor’s like count on-the-fly)
Deploy our website live up onto the web for the entire world to view
And much more!

This course may be brand new, but this isn’t my first time teaching. I’ve led training sessions for Fortune 500 companies and I’ve already helped over 17,000 people on Udemy and received the following feedback:

“Brad definitely has some of the best techniques to embed the lesson into your mind… hands down these are the best tutorials I have had the opportunity to view.”

“Presentation is concise without being tedious… you honestly feel that you have a thorough understanding of the subject.”

“…[Brad] explained the process. Not memorize this or that, he explained the process. If you’re looking to take a course to understand the foundations of creating websites, look no further.”

Become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring WordPress developers; in one convenient place alongside one instructor. If you’re ready to begin coding custom websites – I’ll see you on the inside!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome!

Lecture 1: 2024 Roadmap & Intro!

Lecture 2: Welcome to the Course!

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Lecture 1: What is a Dev Environment? (Your First Installation)

Lecture 2: If You're Unable to Install Local by Flywheel

Lecture 3: About The Recent Big Changes To WordPress

Lecture 4: First Taste of PHP

Chapter 3: First Coding Steps: PHP

Lecture 1: A Note About URLs / My Address Bar

Lecture 2: Creating a New Theme

Lecture 3: PHP Functions

Lecture 4: PHP Arrays

Chapter 4: WordPress Specific PHP

Lecture 1: The Famous "Loop" in WordPress

Lecture 2: Header & Footer

Lecture 3: Optional: If You Want To Skip To One of The Final Chapters In The Course…

Lecture 4: Convert Static HTML Template into WordPress (Part 1)

Lecture 5: Convert Static HTML Template into WordPress (Part 2)

Chapter 5: Pages

Lecture 1: Interior Page Template

Lecture 2: Parent & Children Pages

Lecture 3: To Echo or Not To Echo

Lecture 4: Menu of Child Page Links

Lecture 5: A Few Quick Edits / Improvements

Lecture 6: Navigation Menus

Lecture 7: Navigation Menus (Continued)

Chapter 6: Building the Blog Section

Lecture 1: Blog Listing Page (index.php vs front-page.php)

Lecture 2: Blog Continued

Lecture 3: Blog Archives (archive.php)

Lecture 4: Custom Queries

Lecture 5: Blog: Few Quick Edits & Improvements

Chapter 7: Events Post Type

Lecture 1: Custom Post Types

Lecture 2: Using The Modern Block Editor For Our Custom Post Type

Lecture 3: Displaying Custom Post Types

Lecture 4: Quick Timeout: Misc Updates

Lecture 5: Custom Fields

Lecture 6: A Note About the WordPress Post Edit Screen

Lecture 7: Ordering (Sorting) Custom Queries

Lecture 8: Manipulating Default URL Based Queries

Lecture 9: Past Events Page (Custom Query Pagination)

Chapter 8: Programs Post Type

Lecture 1: Creating Relationships Between Content

Lecture 2: Displaying Relationships (Front-End)

Lecture 3: Quick Program Edits

Chapter 9: Professors Post Type

Lecture 1: Quick Note About The Next Lesson

Lecture 2: Professors Post Type

Lecture 3: Featured Image (Post Thumbnail)

Lecture 4: Featured Image Sizes & Cropping

Lecture 5: Page Banner Dynamic Background Image

Chapter 10: Cleaner Code (Less Duplication)

Lecture 1: Note About PHP Warning In The Next Lesson

Lecture 2: Reduce Duplicate Code – Create Our Own Function

Lecture 3: Solution To "Undefined array key" Warnings

Lecture 4: Quick Fix For Page Banner Function

Lecture 5: Using Our "pageBanner" Function

Lecture 6: Reduce Duplication – "get_template_part()"

Chapter 11: JavaScript Preparation

Lecture 1: Getting Our Computer & Project Ready for JavaScript

Lecture 2: Important Note About The Next Lesson

Lecture 3: Optional: The Finished Product Of This Course: All In One Import File

Chapter 12: Campus Post Type

Lecture 1: Note About Google Maps JavaScript API

Lecture 2: Campus Post Type

Lecture 3: Campus Map on Front-End

Lecture 4: Campuses Continued

Lecture 5: Final Campus Details

Chapter 13: Live Search (UI JavaScript)

Lecture 1: Live Search

Lecture 2: Quick Note About The Next Lesson

Lecture 3: Open and Close Search Overlay

Lecture 4: Preventing the Text Field Suggestions Pop-up

Lecture 5: Keyboard Events in JavaScript

Lecture 6: Managing Time in JavaScript

Lecture 7: Waiting / Loading Spinner Icon

Chapter 14: WordPress REST API (AJAX)

Lecture 1: Quick Note About The Next Lesson

Lecture 2: Load WP Content with JS

Lecture 3: Generate HTML Based on JSON

Lecture 4: Conditional Logic Within Template Literal

Lecture 5: Quick Misc Edits

Lecture 6: Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 1)

Lecture 7: Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 2)

Chapter 15: Customizing the REST API

Lecture 1: REST API: Add New Custom Field

Lecture 2: REST API: Add New Custom Route (URL)

Lecture 3: Create Your Own Raw JSON Data

Lecture 4: WP_Query and Keyword Searching

Lecture 5: Working With Multiple Post Types

Chapter 16: Combining Front-End & Back-End

Lecture 1: 3 Column Layout for Search Overlay

Lecture 2: Custom Layout & JSON based on Post Type

Lecture 3: Quick Note About The Next Lesson

Lecture 4: Search Logic That's Aware of Relationships

Lecture 5: Search Logic That's Aware of Relationships (Part 2)

Lecture 6: Completing Our Search Overlay

Lecture 7: jQuery Free Live Search

Instructors

Brad Schiff
Web Developer

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1 stars: 190 votes
2 stars: 196 votes
3 stars: 949 votes
4 stars: 5691 votes
5 stars: 17947 votes

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