Description:
Unlock the full power of WordPress and go beyond "just a blog platform" by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites.
Updated for 2024:
New chapters about The Interactivity API, Block Themes, Full Site Editing, Gutenberg Block Type Creation, Plugin Development, React.js basics, custom MySQL essentials, and more!
What you'll learn:
Why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress
The ability to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site
The ability to write JavaScript to add on-the-fly interactivity to a WordPress site
How to code your own new custom block types for the "Gutenberg" Block Editor
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)