Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
16 Hour(s) 9 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Zac Gordon
Rating
3 views
Course Overview
Everything you need to become a hirable WordPress Developer building custom themes and plugins
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 Content
- 7 section(s)
- 176 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting Ready for WordPress Development
- Section 2 PHP for WordPress
- Section 3 Child Themes and Starter Themes
- Section 4 The Template Hierarchy
- Section 5 Template Tags
- Section 6 Action and Filter Hooks in WordPress
- Section 7 Plugin Development
What You’ll 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
Reviews
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DDaniel Camomile
Outdated versions of softwares
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TThiago Lanza
It lacks a good hands-on experience with concrete themes.
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SShubham Sharma
I'm giving this course a 4-star rating. It's a good starting point, and the content is well-organized and clearly explained, especially in relation to WordPress fundamentals. However, the downside is that the course hasn't been updated in a long time. Since technology evolves quickly, some parts feel outdated. Still, if you're a beginner looking to learn the basics, this course is definitely good enough.
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JJordan Barnes
Ok, I just bought this. I've been a WordPress designer and developer for 6 years. For context, what I do is mostly on the front end using some CSS, JS, and editing just a few things in PHP and SQL if needed (which is rare, maybe three or 4 times a month nothing huge), so I didn't know what to expect when buying this if it would be valuable information or it wouldn't be. Quite frankly I'm floored at how much I've already learned. This is among the best developer setups I've ever seen. Great sandbox learning. Make sure to watch the videos completely though, because he leaves his own errors in there and explains them later, so if you're just jumping around, thinking you'll have it, you won't and then your stuff won't work and you won't know why. Just for context: I've worked through a lot of courses, and have ones from top name developers on here like Angela Yu, Derek Banas, Brad Traversy, Colt Steele and many others. This is easily as helpful as all of those mentioned, specifically if you're digging into WordPress.
