Unlock the full power of WordPress – go beyond “just a blog platform” by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites, and become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring WordPress developers by taking the Udemy course “Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code“. In the course, you will learn why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress, how to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site, and how to write JavaScript to add on-the-fly interactivity to a WordPress site. You will develop the skills, knowledge, and vocabulary to work professionally as a WordPress developer.
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).
Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code – Course Content
In this course, you will learn PHP, JavaScript, WordPress theming and the WP REST API to Create Custom and Interactive WordPress Websites. The course includes the following:
- Install WordPress on your personal computer;
- Get introduced to the PHP language (this is what powers WordPress);
- Set Up a New Theme (and 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!
The Course comprises 112 lectures organized into the following sections:
- Welcome!
- Getting Started
- First Coding Steps: PHP
- WordPress Specific PHP
- Pages
- Building the Blog Section
- Workflow and Automation
- Events Post Type
- Programs Post Type
- Professors Post Type
- Cleaner Code (Less Duplication)
- Campus Post Type
- Live Search (UI JavaScript)
- WordPress REST API (AJAX)
- Customizing the REST API
- Combining Front-End & Back-End
- Non-JS Fallback Traditional Search
- User Roles and Permissions
- User-Generated Content
- Like or “Heart” Count for Professors
- Going Live: Deploying Our WordPress Site
- Setting Up New Projects in Vagrant/VirtualBox
- Extra Credit Challenges & Topics
- Bonus: Debugging & Documentation
Summary of Course Main Features
- Instructor: Brad Schiff – Web Developer
- Lectures: 112
- On-demand video: 26.5 hours
- Articles: 18
- Downloadable Resources: 89
- Includes:
- 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of Completion
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