Complete WordPress Theme & Plugin Development Course

Complete WordPress Theme & Plugin Development Course, available at $109.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 178 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 3954 reviews, and has 21802 subscribers.

You will learn about PHP for WordPress – The Loop, Conditionals, Hooks and More! How to Work with Child and Starter Themes Like Pro The Ins and Outs of the Template Hierarchy – Always Know What File to Customize How To Enqueue and Work with JavaScript and CSS in Themes The Complete List of Template Tags To Use When Customizing and Extending Themes A Deep Understanding of How to Use Action and Filter Hooks to Programmatically Control WordPress A Solid Starter Template For Building Your Own WordPress Plugins Common Practices and Techniques for Building Custom WordPress Plugins This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Themes or Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Plugins or Anyone with basic HTML and CSS skills who wants to start customizing WordPress Themes or Developers who want to learn WordPress Development in more depth or Anyone looking to get a job or career in WordPress Development It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Themes or Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Plugins or Anyone with basic HTML and CSS skills who wants to start customizing WordPress Themes or Developers who want to learn WordPress Development in more depth or Anyone looking to get a job or career in WordPress Development.

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Summary

Title: Complete WordPress Theme & Plugin Development Course

Price: $109.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 178

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 176

Number of Published Quizzes: 7

Number of Curriculum Items: 185

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 183

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

PHP for WordPress – The Loop, Conditionals, Hooks and More!
How to Work with Child and Starter Themes Like Pro
The Ins and Outs of the Template Hierarchy – Always Know What File to Customize
How To Enqueue and Work with JavaScript and CSS in Themes
The Complete List of Template Tags To Use When Customizing and Extending Themes
A Deep Understanding of How to Use Action and Filter Hooks to Programmatically Control WordPress
A Solid Starter Template For Building Your Own WordPress Plugins
Common Practices and Techniques for Building Custom WordPress Plugins

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Themes
Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Plugins
Anyone with basic HTML and CSS skills who wants to start customizing WordPress Themes
Developers who want to learn WordPress Development in more depth
Anyone looking to get a job or career in WordPress Development

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Themes
Anyone who wants to learn how to build WordPress Plugins
Anyone with basic HTML and CSS skills who wants to start customizing WordPress Themes
Developers who want to learn WordPress Development in more depth
Anyone looking to get a job or career in WordPress Development

WordPress is the leading Content Management System on the market, powering a large percentage of the Web. The need for WordPress Developers who can build and customize themes and plugins is ever growing. Learn from one of the most recognized educators in the WordPress world, Zac Gordon, who has taught thousands of people now employed as WordPress Developers.

If you want to learn everything from customizing existing themes, building custom themes or starting to build plugins, this course is for you. You will learn in depth how WordPress works under the hood, from template files and tags to hooks and internal APIs. If you are looking to build bigger and more custom projects with WordPress or just get a good job with a great company building WordPress projects, then this course is for you. Make sure though you can already build and style a basic web page with HTML and CSS as we assume you already know this and focus more on learning PHP.

When you learn the skills this course contains you will feel incredibly empowered to build almost anything you can imagine with WordPress. You should also feel confident working professionally in the field as a WordPress Developer. You will have built a theme and plugin along with the course as well as a theme and plugin of your own. Follow in the path of thousands of others of Zac’s students who learned WordPress Development and went on to do great work in the field.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Ready for WordPress Development

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Downloading and Using the Course Example Files

Lecture 3: Setting Up WordPress Locally

Lecture 4: DesktopServer from ServerPress

Lecture 5: Local from Flywheel

Lecture 6: Editing WordPress Files Locally

Lecture 7: Introduction to Staging

Lecture 8: Pulling from Production to Staging to Local

Lecture 9: Pushing from Local to Staging to Production

Chapter 2: PHP for WordPress

Lecture 1: PHP for WordPress Introduction

Lecture 2: What is PHP?

Lecture 3: Writing Some Basic PHP

Lecture 4: PHP Programming Basics

Lecture 5: PRACTICE – PHP Basics

Lecture 6: WordPress PHP Coding Standards

Lecture 7: Different Types of PHP Files in WordPress

Lecture 8: The Loop

Lecture 9: PRACTICE – The Loop

Lecture 10: Template Tags

Lecture 11: PRACTICE – Template Tags

Lecture 12: WordPress Conditionals

Lecture 13: PRACTICE – Conditional Tags

Lecture 14: WordPress Hooks

Lecture 15: PRACTICE – WordPress Hooks

Lecture 16: PHP for WordPress Review

Chapter 3: Child Themes and Starter Themes

Lecture 1: Chlid Themes v Starter Themes

Lecture 2: Child Theme Basics

Lecture 3: DEMO – Child Theme

Lecture 4: PRACTICE – Child Themes

Lecture 5: Starter Theme Basics

Lecture 6: DEMO – Underscore Starter Theme

Lecture 7: PRACTICE – Starter Themes

Lecture 8: Child and Starter Themes Review

Chapter 4: The Template Hierarchy

Lecture 1: An Introduction to the Template Hierarchy

Lecture 2: Setting up the Theme Content and Files

Lecture 3: Working with the style.css file

Lecture 4: Working with the functions.php file

Lecture 5: Working with the index.php template

Lecture 6: Working with Headers in WordPress

Lecture 7: Working with Footers in WordPress

Lecture 8: Adding Menus and body_class

Lecture 9: Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 1

Lecture 10: Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 2

Lecture 11: Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 3

Lecture 12: Working with Sidebars in WordPress

Lecture 13: Adding Widget Areas in WordPress

Lecture 14: Working with the Loop

Lecture 15: Creating Content Includes

Lecture 16: Working with the singular.php template

Lecture 17: Working with the single.php template

Lecture 18: Adding a single-post.php template

Lecture 19: Working with the comments.php template

Lecture 20: Working with Post Formats in WordPress

Lecture 21: The home.php for the Blog Homepage

Lecture 22: Working with archive.php and Archives in WordPress

Lecture 23: Working with the author.php template

Lecture 24: Working with author-id.php and author-nicename.php templates

Lecture 25: Working with Category Archive Templates

Lecture 26: Working with Date Archive Templates

Lecture 27: Working with Media Attachment Templates

Lecture 28: Mime Type Templates Further Explained

Lecture 29: Working with Page Templates

Lecture 30: Working with the front-page.php Template

Lecture 31: Working with Custom Templates

Lecture 32: Adding a 404.php template

Lecture 33: Working with Search Templates

Lecture 34: Working with Custom Post Type Archives

Lecture 35: Working with Custom Post Type Single Pages – Part 1

Lecture 36: Working with Custom Post Type Single Pages – Part 2

Lecture 37: Working with Custom Taxonomy Archives – Part 1

Lecture 38: Working with Custom Taxonomy Archives – Part 2

Lecture 39: Working with Multiple CSS Files

Lecture 40: Including JavaScript in Your Themes

Lecture 41: Working with JavaScript Dependencies (like jQuery)

Lecture 42: Template Hierarchy Review

Chapter 5: Template Tags

Lecture 1: An Introduction to Template Tags

Lecture 2: General Template Tags – Introduction

Lecture 3: General Tags – Include Tags

Lecture 4: General Tags – Login Tags

Lecture 5: General Tags – bloginfo

Lecture 6: General Tags – Archive Tags – Part 1

Lecture 7: General Tags – Archive Tags – Part 2

Lecture 8: General Tags – Calendar Tags

Lecture 9: General Tags – Misc Tags

Lecture 10: PRACTICE – General Template Tags – Part 1

Lecture 11: PRACTICE – General Template Tags – Part 2

Lecture 12: Navigation Tags

Lecture 13: Navigation Tags – CSS Classes

Instructors

Zac Gordon
Expert Educator

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 76 votes
2 stars: 73 votes
3 stars: 340 votes
4 stars: 1095 votes
5 stars: 2370 votes

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