What you’ll learn
- Why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress
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The ability to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site
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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
Course Curriculum
| 01 Welcome! | |||
| 001 Welcome to the Course! | 00:00:00 | ||
| 02 Getting Started | |||
| 002 What is a Dev Environment_ (Your First Installation) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 003 Only for Vagrant Users (Creating our Dev Environment) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 004 First Taste of PHP | 00:00:00 | ||
| 006 Only for Vagrant Users (Installing WordPress) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 005 Note for Local by Flywheel Users | 00:00:00 | ||
| 03 First Coding Steps_ PHP | |||
| 007 Creating a New Theme | 00:00:00 | ||
| 008 PHP Functions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 009 PHP Arrays | 00:00:00 | ||
| 04 WordPress Specific PHP | |||
| 010 The Famous _Loop_ in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 011 Header & Footer | 00:00:00 | ||
| 012 Convert Static HTML Template into WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 013 Quick Note_ Avoiding Caching (CSS & JS) During Dev | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 05 Pages | |||
| 014 Interior Page Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 015 Parent & Children Pages | 00:00:00 | ||
| 016 To Echo or Not To Echo | 00:00:00 | ||
| 017 Menu of Child Page Links | 00:00:00 | ||
| 018 A Few Quick Edits _ Improvements | 00:00:00 | ||
| 019 Navigation Menus | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 06 Building the Blog Section | |||
| 020 Blog Listing Page (index_php vs front-page_php) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 021 Blog Continued | 00:00:00 | ||
| 022 Blog Archives (archive_php) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 023 Custom Queries | 00:00:00 | ||
| 024 Blog_ Few Quick Edits & Improvements | 00:00:00 | ||
| 07 Workflow and Automation | |||
| 025 Note on Gulp | 00:00:00 | ||
| 026 Preparing For Automation_ What is a Command Line_ | 00:00:00 | ||
| 027 Workflow and Automation (Part 1) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 028 Workflow and Automation (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 08 Events Post Type | |||
| 029 Custom Post Types | 00:00:00 | ||
| 030 Displaying Custom Post Types | 00:00:00 | ||
| 031 Quick Timeout_ Misc Updates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 032 Custom Fields | 00:00:00 | ||
| 033 Ordering (Sorting) Custom Queries | 00:00:00 | ||
| 034 Manipulating Default URL Based Queries | 00:00:00 | ||
| 035 Past Events Page (Custom Query Pagination) | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 09 Programs Post Type | |||
| 036 Creating Relationships Between Content | 00:00:00 | ||
| 037 Displaying Relationships (Front-End) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 038 Quick Program Edits | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 10 Professors Post Type | |||
| 039 Professors Post Type | 00:00:00 | ||
| 040 Featured Image (Post Thumbnail) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 040 Featured Image (Post Thumbnail) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 042 Page Banner Dynamic Background Image | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 11 Cleaner Code (Less Duplication) | |||
| 043 Reduce Duplicate Code – Create Our Own Function | 00:00:00 | ||
| 044 Using Our _pageBanner_ Function | 00:00:00 | ||
| 045 Reduce Duplication – _get_template_part()_ | 00:00:00 | ||
| Code | 00:00:00 | ||
| 12 Campus Post Type | |||
| 046 Campus Post Type | 00:00:00 | ||
| 047 Campus Map on Front-End | 00:00:00 | ||
| 048 Campuses Continued | 00:00:00 | ||
| 049 Final Campus Details | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 13 Live Search (UI JavaScript) | |||
| 050 Live Search | 00:00:00 | ||
| 051 Open and Close Search Overlay | 00:00:00 | ||
| 052 Keyboard Events in JavaScript | 00:00:00 | ||
| 053 Managing Time in JavaScript | 00:00:00 | ||
| 054 Waiting _ Loading Spinner Icon | 00:00:00 | ||
| 14 WordPress REST API (AJAX) | |||
| 055 Load WP Content with JS | 00:00:00 | ||
| 056 Generate HTML Based on JSON | 00:00:00 | ||
| 057 Conditional Logic Within Template Literal | 00:00:00 | ||
| 058 Quick Misc Edits | 00:00:00 | ||
| 059 Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 1) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 060 Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 15 Customizing the REST API | |||
| 061 REST API_ Add New Custom Field | 00:00:00 | ||
| 062 REST API_ Add New Custom Route (URL) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 063 Create Your Own Raw JSON Data | 00:00:00 | ||
| 064 WP_Query and Keyword Searching | 00:00:00 | ||
| 065 Working With Multiple Post Types | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 16 Combining Front-End & Back-End | |||
| 066 3 Column Layout for Search Overlay | 00:00:00 | ||
| 067 Custom Layout & JSON based on Post Type | 00:00:00 | ||
| 068 Search Logic That’s Aware of Relationships | 00:00:00 | ||
| 069 Search Logic That’s Aware of Relationships (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 070 Completing Our Search Overlay | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 17 Non-JS Fallback Traditional Search | |||
| 071 Traditional WordPress Searching | 00:00:00 | ||
| 072 Traditional WordPress Searching (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 18 User Roles and Permissions | |||
| 073 User Roles and Permissions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 074 Open Registration | 00:00:00 | ||
| 075 Open Registration (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 19 User Generated Content | |||
| 076 _My Notes_ Feature | 00:00:00 | ||
| 077 _My Notes_ Front-end Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 078 _My Notes_ Front-end Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 079 Delete Posts with the REST API | 00:00:00 | ||
| 080 Edit _ Update Posts with the REST API | 00:00:00 | ||
| 081 Creating New Notes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 082 Creating New Notes (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 083 Note Permissions and Security (Part 1) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 084 Note Permissions and Security (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 085 Per-User Post Limit | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 20 Like or _Heart_ Count for Professors | |||
| 086 Let Users _Like_ Content (Part 1) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 087 Let Users _Like_ Content (Part 2) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 088 Creating Custom POST and DELETE Endpoints | 00:00:00 | ||
| 089 Programmatically Create a Post | 00:00:00 | ||
| 090 Enforce Limit of One Like Per User_Teacher Combo | 00:00:00 | ||
| 091 Completing the LikeBox | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 21 Going Live_ Deploying Our WordPress Site | |||
| 092 Going Live with Our Website | 00:00:00 | ||
| 093 Path A (Simple and Quick) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 094 Path B (Advanced _ Manually Moving a Site) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 095 Database Config for Two Site Environments | 00:00:00 | ||
| 096 Ignoring Certain Files with Git | 00:00:00 | ||
| 097 Automatic Git Deployments to Web Host | 00:00:00 | ||
| 22 Setting Up New Projects in Vagrant_VirtualBox | |||
| 098 Setting Up New Projects in Vagrant_VirtualBox | 00:00:00 | ||
| 23 Extra Credit Challenges & Topics | |||
| 099 Challenge_ Make Homepage Slideshow Dynamic | 00:00:00 | ||
| 100 Challenge_ Create a Basic Plugin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 101 Challenge_ Have an Update Plan in Place (Security) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 102 Challenge_ Query Vars | 00:00:00 | ||
| 103 Finale_ JavaScript Next Steps | 00:00:00 | ||
| Codes | 00:00:00 | ||
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