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Learn PHP, JavaScript, WordPress theming & the WP REST API to Create Custom & Interactive WordPress Websites
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Summary

Unlock the full power of WordPress and go beyond “just a blog platform” by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites.

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 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 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)
  • Let users “like” or “heart” a professor (update the professor’s like count on-the-fly)
  • Deploy our website live up onto the web for the entire world to view
  • And much more!

Become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring WordPress developers; in one convenient place alongside one instructor. If you’re ready to begin coding custom websites – I’ll see you on the inside!

Who this course is for:

  • Developers who want to use WordPress as a true Content Management System and not “just a blog platform.”
  • Those looking to learn the PHP and JavaScript languages.
  • People who want to learn about the “REST API” which allows us to interact with WordPress data on-the-fly in realtime.
  • Anyone interested in custom post types, custom fields, and creating relationships between various content types.

Requirements

  • Basic WordPress knowledge (how to create a blog post, etc…)
  • A basic understanding of HTML (e.g. “p” is for paragraph, “h1” is for headline, etc…)
  • No CSS knowledge required (although it helps to understand that CSS is used to add style & design to a page)
  • No JavaScript knowledge required (although it helps to understand that JS is used to add interactivity to a page)