WordPress development: Ideas and Patterns

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting started

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Getting to know WordPress. Part 1.

Lecture 3: Getting to know WordPress. Part 2.

Lecture 4: WordPress folder structure, making reusable templates.

Lecture 5: Debugging tools

Lecture 6: Create WordPress theme

Lecture 7: The Loop

Lecture 8: Template Hierarchy

Lecture 9: Actions

Lecture 10: Custom Hooks

Lecture 11: Enable theme supports

Chapter 2: Project. Interact with database.

Lecture 1: Getting to know with Figma. Find easiest block and make it with Elementor.

Lecture 2: Making first block.

Lecture 3: Localization and Internationalization

Lecture 4: Customizer. Introduciton.

Lecture 5: Customizer. Escaping ouput with wp_kses.

Lecture 6: Customizer. Handle image type.

Lecture 7: Customizer. Prelude to Kirki.

Lecture 8: Kirki plugin. Rebuild banner with Kirki settings.

Lecture 9: Kirki plugin. Repeater for socials.

Lecture 10: WordPress Settings API. Custom admin page.

Lecture 11: WP Media. Part 1.

Lecture 12: WP Media. Part 2.

Lecture 13: Custom Meta Boxes. Post Meta Data. Part 1.

Lecture 14: Custom Meta Boxes. Post Meta Data. Part 2.

Lecture 15: Advanced custom fields. ACF.

Lecture 16: Redux Framework. Add fields.

Lecture 17: Redux Framework. Display data.

Chapter 3: WordPress Query. The Loop. Custom Post Types.

Lecture 1: Query Posts.

Lecture 2: Custom Post Type. Query Projects.

Chapter 4: Menus

Lecture 1: Design Header.

Lecture 2: Nested menu.

Lecture 3: Add icons to menu.

Lecture 4: Add custom fields to menu.

Lecture 5: Mega menu. Part 1.

Lecture 6: Mega menu. Part 2.

Lecture 7: Walker class.

Lecture 8: Make use of 2 header layouts.

Lecture 9: Mobile menu.

Chapter 5: Front page. Rest blocks.

Lecture 1: Footer.

Lecture 2: Initiatives CPT.

Lecture 3: Custom taxonomy. Custom post status.

Lecture 4: Custom functions. array_key_exists()

Lecture 5: Initiative statuses, switch operator.

Lecture 6: Initiatives progress bar.

Lecture 7: DateTime class.

Lecture 8: Slick slider.

Lecture 9: Events CPT. wp_date()

Lecture 10: Meta Query, timezones.

Lecture 11: Javascript tabs.

Lecture 12: Countdown

Lecture 13: Reusable blocks.

Lecture 14: Charity CPT.

Lecture 15: Redux Framework. Repeater. Embed map.

Chapter 6: Archives, single post pages.

Lecture 1: Archive news page.

Lecture 2: query variables

Lecture 3: Filter by category. add_query_arg()

Lecture 4: get_template_part() with args

Lecture 5: Single news page. Content in Gutenberg editor.

Lecture 6: Pagination.

Lecture 7: Archive for CPT. Initiatives.

Lecture 8: Filters block in archive initiatives.

Lecture 9: WP Meta Query. pre_get_posts hook

Lecture 10: WP Meta Query, pre_get_posts hook. Districts.

Lecture 11: WP Meta Query, pre_get_posts hook. Statuses.

Lecture 12: Single initiatives page.

Chapter 7: Handle forms. AJAX.

Lecture 1: Dealing with forms. admin_post_{$action} hook

Lecture 2: Dealing with forms. admin_post_nopriv_{$action}

Lecture 3: wp_insert_post()

Lecture 4: Trick how allow to post only once.

Lecture 5: Creating TABLE

Lecture 6: wpdb: insert, get_results, prepare. SQL query.

Lecture 7: php OOP

Lecture 8: AJAX

Lecture 9: AJAX: display errors. nonces.

Lecture 10: php output buffering. ob_start(), ob_get_clean()

Lecture 11: wpdb::get_var. SQL COUNT function

Lecture 12: Javascript form validation

Chapter 8: Migrate WordPress site

Lecture 1: Duplicator

Lecture 2: All-in-One WP Migration

Chapter 9: Initiative steps block.

Lecture 1: Multiple Headers, Footers templates.

Lecture 2: HTML steps structure.

Lecture 3: JS Classes

Lecture 4: Steps: prev step, progress bar, counter.

Lecture 5: Steps: validation.

Lecture 6: Steps: validation.

Lecture 7: Handle ajax request with php.

Lecture 8: Handle ajax request with js. Saving & displaying post meta data.

Chapter 10: Comments

Lecture 1: Introduction