Unlock the full power of WordPress Developer and go
beyond “just a blog platform” by learning how to code completely custom
WordPress powered sites.
Updated for 2019: A new 3 part lesson on become a wordpress developer unlocking
power with codecoding our own custom block type for the new
“Gutenberg” Block Editor in WordPress.
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 WordPress Developer 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 Developer
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)
