WordPress Development for Beginners Online Course

WordPress Development for Beginners Online Course

This WordPress development course takes you from the basics of hooks, filters, and shortcodes to advanced topics like custom post types, security, and theme development. You’ll gain hands-on experience creating plugins, customizing themes, and building a complete WordPress site from scratch, equipping you with the skills to develop and manage professional, dynamic websites.

Who should take this course?

This course is ideal for beginners with little to no coding experience, aspiring web developers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to create and customize WordPress websites.

What you will learn

• Set up and configure a WordPress development environment.
• Create and modify posts using hooks, filters, and shortcodes.
• Develop custom post types and settings pages.
• Implement WordPress security best practices.
• Build and customize WordPress themes and plugins.
• Use WordPress features: the Loop, taxonomies, and the Customizer.

Course Outline

Fundamentals

• Overview and Getting Started
• Hooks and Filters
• Shortcodes
• Creating and Modifying Posts
• The Loop
• Custom Post Types
• Taxonomies
• Creating a Settings Page
• Options and Transients
• Settings Sections and Fields
• Security Essentials
• Widgets
• Remote URLs
• Coding Standards
• Users
• User Meta
• Post Meta
• Enqueue Scripts and Styles
• Dashboard Widgets
• WPDB
• Customize the Login Page
• WordPress and AJAX
• WordPress Cron Jobs
• Customizing the Admin Area
• The Template Hierarchy
• Child Themes
• Themes: Header, Footer and Index
• Using the Loop Inside Our Theme
• Creating the Site's Navigation
• Creating Page Templates
• Setting Up Our Widget Areas
• Activation and Deactivation Functions
• Internationalization

Creating Our First Plugin

• Creating Our First Plugin
• Creating Our First Plugin Part 2

Creating a WordPress Site

• Creating a WordPress Site
• Creating a WordPress Site Part 2
• Creating a WordPress Site Part 3
• Creating a WordPress Site Part 4
• Creating a WordPress Site Part 5
• Adding Custom Post Types
• Creating Theme Options
• Extending the Customizer