Embark on a journey to master WordPress development, starting with the essential fundamentals. Begin by exploring the history of WordPress, setting up your development environment, and understanding foundational elements such as hooks, filters, and shortcodes. Gain hands-on experience with creating and modifying posts, understanding the Loop, and organizing content using taxonomies. Progress to advanced topics like custom post types, settings pages, and WordPress security. Learn to create widgets, handle remote URLs, and adhere to coding standards. The curriculum covers user and post meta, script and style enqueueing, dashboard widgets, and customizing the login page and admin area. Explore the template hierarchy, child themes, and theme development, ensuring you can build responsive and dynamic WordPress sites. Finally, put your knowledge into practice by creating your first plugin and building a complete WordPress site from scratch. Configure navigation, sidebars, custom post types, theme options, and extend the Customizer for real-time site adjustments. This course equips you with the expertise to develop, customize, and manage professional WordPress sites, setting the stage for your success as a WordPress developer.

Who is this book for?

This course is ideal for aspiring WordPress developers, web designers, and anyone interested in creating and customizing WordPress sites. A basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is recommended but not required.