4.44 out of 5
4.44
2383 reviews on Udemy

Complete WordPress Developer Course – Plugins & Themes

Learn how to develop WordPress themes and plugins. Includes React and Gutenberg development.
Instructor:
Luis Ramirez Jr
15,315 students enrolled
English [Auto]
Build a fully functioning WordPress theme and plugin
Build websites for any business and audience
License your theme and/or plugin
Understand the architecture of a plugin and theme
Understand the WordPress core and it's functions
Fully Understand WordPress's API and how to interact with WordPress and its system
Query the Database and create tables
Comfortably navigate around the WordPress core
Confidently use the command line and learn basic commands.
Learn the latest features in JavaScript including ES6 modules and variables
Improve your workflow using Babel and Webpack
Create, manage and process admin forms.
Create custom post types for special kinds of content
Build custom Gutenberg blocks with React, Webpack and Babel.

Hello! Welcome to the WordPress development course. This is the most comprehensive and effective course on WordPress development around. This is the only course you’ll ever need to learn WordPress development. 

WordPress currently holds a majority of the market share on the web. WordPress is an absolute dominant force and its popularity continuously grows. One of the best things about WordPress is that it’s easily extendable. There are thousands of plugins and themes available both free and premium.

In this course, I will teach you how to create your very own plugins and themes. This course was designed for those who truly want to master WordPress inside and out. There is no stone left unturned. This course will help make you into one of the most competitive WordPress developers out there. You will be able to develop custom plugins and themes no matter how hard the task is.

You can expect high-quality and fresh tutorials. This course uses the latest versions of software development including PHP (8.x), and MySQL/MariaDB (8.x) . 

Here is an overview of what you can expect to learn.

  • Take a static HTML template and convert it into a fully functioning WordPress theme. 

  • Write code that scales and learn the best practices for writing clean, efficient, secure, and reusable code. The WordPress coding standards are covered from PHP to JavaScript and CSS.

  • Properly take advantage of the template hierarchy system and create your own custom templates for more unique designs.

  • Build plugins that extend the core functionality of WordPress.

  • Develop custom post types for content that give you the flexibility to curate content you want to. Apply metadata to your content and display everything on the front end.

  • Learn about the various methods for creating your own custom admin forms and processing the data securely.

  • Other topics include licensing, translations, security, authentication, full-site editing, block development and so much more!

  • The APIs that are covered are the following: Database API, HTTP API, Metadata API, Options API, Plugins API, REST API, Rewrite API, and Settings API.

  • On top of everything, you will also learn how to create your very own Gutenberg blocks. Take advantage of the newest feature that comes bundled with WordPress 6!

  • Not confident with your React and JavaScript skills? That’s completely fine! The skills required to build efficient and scalable Gutenberg blocks are covered in this course. You’ll learn how to use Node, Webpack, Babel, and React

In a nutshell, we’ll explore the various WordPress APIs and how they should be used. The developer documentation is filled with examples and each page is quite lengthy. WordPress development doesn’t have to be hard to learn. The biggest mistake most coding tutorials make is expecting someone to learn simply by imitating others’ code. Real-world situations are never exactly like the tutorial.

I believe the best way to learn is to understand how a tool works and what it does for you, look at examples, and then try it yourself. That’s how this course is built, with the goal to help you both learn and understand WordPress.

Take the leap into Gutenberg Development

This course goes beyond the simple WordPress plugin development and WordPress theme development tutorials. You will learn how to create Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress as the back end. The CEO of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, has urged developers to start learning JavaScript deeply

You will first learn the basics such as the command line and ES6. You will be caught up with the latest standards of JavaScript from modules to destructuring and so much more! Tools such as babel and webpack are also explored and implemented with our code. We will build a functioning WordPress Gutenberg block with React

Build components to separate your code. All this knowledge is right at your fingertips!

Why am I qualified to teach this course?

I’ve been developing sites in WordPress for over 10 years. I know all the tricks to work with WordPress. I don’t fool around. You will learn all my techniques and teach you the exact process I go through. I’ve sold commercial themes and plugins with over 1000+ sales worldwide. I know what it takes to create stuff that works!

There is no useless information here in this course. It’s all 100% high-quality content and nothing less. I guarantee you will absolutely love this course and see real results. You’ll have the skills and confidence to build your own custom themes and plugins your clients will love. You’ll be able to take on bigger projects for more money. Don’t believe me? I offer a 100% refund within 30 days. There is absolutely no risk involved!

Don’t be the one that gets left behind! Enroll and start learning today

Getting Started

1
Introduction
2
Free PDF Download
3
What is an environment?
4
Installing WordPress
5
Local Quick Tour
6
Text Editors

PHP Fundamentals

1
Introduction to PHP
2
Variables
3
Strings and Booleans
4
Functions
5
Arrays
6
Loops
7
Constants
8
Understanding Errors
9
Comments
10
WordPress and PHP
11
PHP Quiz

Kickstarting a Theme

1
Exploring the WordPress Configuration
2
Adjusting the Configuration
3
WordPress File and Folders
4
File Headers
5
Additional File Headers
6
Say Hello to Full-Site Editing
7
The Index Template
8
Recreating the Index Template
9
Language Attribute
10
Character Set
11
Loading Additional Tags
12
The Body Tag
13
Getting to know WordPress
14
WordPress Coding Standards
15
Theme Fundamentals

Global Styles

1
Aside: JSON
2
Introduction to Global Styles
3
Loading a Schema
4
Default Color Palette
5
Block Color Settings
6
Adding Colors to the Palette
7
Colors for backgrounds, text, and links
8
Custom Colors
9
Duotones
10
Gradients
11
Applying Colors
12
Applying Gradients
13
Applying Styles to Elements
14
Borders
15
Font Families
16
Font Sizes
17
Various Font Settings
18
Applying Typography Styles
19
Content Width
20
Margin and Padding
21
Custom Units
22
Block gaps
23
Enabling Everything
24
Global Styles Quiz

Managing Asset Files

1
Aside: Git & GitHub
2
Adding the Template
3
Understanding Hooks
4
The functions.php File
5
The Enqueue Hook
6
Aside: PHP Function Return Values
7
Including Files
8
Registering Styles
9
Enqueuing Styles
10
Fixing the Google Font
11
Loading Additional Head Tags
12
Managing Asset Files Quiz

Templates

1
Creating a Header and Footer Template Part
2
Brief Anatomy of a Block
3
Optimizing the Header and Footer
4
Adding Dummy Content
5
Creating the Topbar
6
The Group Block
7
Loading Editor Styles
8
Adding a Navigation Menu
9
Adding the Midsection
10
Fixing the Editor Styles
11
Finishing the Header
12
Tailwind
13
Inserting the Columns Block
14
Query Loop Block
15
Adding Post Blocks
16
Styling Post Blocks
17
Pagination
18
Sidebar Blocks
19
Exercise: Footer Blocks
20
Template Hierarchy
21
404 Template
22
Category Template
23
Search Template
24
Single Post Template
25
Page Template
26
Custom Templates
You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.
Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don't have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That's up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!
4.4
4.4 out of 5
2383 Ratings

Detailed Rating

Stars 5
1407
Stars 4
664
Stars 3
186
Stars 2
77
Stars 1
50
1e9c2ecf8dc33207bf4f0dab2e0766d4
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Includes

29 hours on-demand video
5 articles
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of Completion