What you’ll learn
- PHP for WordPress – The Loop, Conditionals, Hooks and More!
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How to Work with Child and Starter Themes Like Pro
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The Ins and Outs of the Template Hierarchy – Always Know What File to Customize
- How To Enqueue and Work with JavaScript and CSS in Themes
- The Complete List of Template Tags To Use When Customizing and Extending Themes
- A Deep Understanding of How to Use Action and Filter Hooks to Programmatically Control WordPress
- A Solid Starter Template For Building Your Own WordPress Plugins
- Common Practices and Techniques for Building Custom WordPress Plugins
Course Curriculum
| 01 Getting Ready for WordPress Development | |||
| 001 Course Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| 002 Setting Up WordPress Locally | 00:00:00 | ||
| 003 DesktopServer from ServerPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 004 Local from Flywheel | 00:00:00 | ||
| 005 Editing WordPress Files Locally | 00:00:00 | ||
| 006 Introduction to Staging | 00:00:00 | ||
| 007 Pulling from Production to Staging to Local | 00:00:00 | ||
| 008 Pushing from Local to Staging to Production | 00:00:00 | ||
| 02 PHP for WordPress | |||
| 009 PHP for WordPress Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| 010 What is PHP | 00:00:00 | ||
| 011 Writing Some Basic PHP | 00:00:00 | ||
| 012 PHP Programming Basics | 00:00:00 | ||
| 013 PRACTICE – PHP Basics | 00:00:00 | ||
| 014 WordPress PHP Coding Standards | 00:00:00 | ||
| 015 Different Types of PHP Files in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 016 The Loop | 00:00:00 | ||
| 017 PRACTICE – The Loop | 00:00:00 | ||
| 018 Template Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 019 PRACTICE – Template Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 020 WordPress Conditionals | 00:00:00 | ||
| 021 PRACTICE – Conditional Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 022 WordPress Hooks | 00:00:00 | ||
| 023 PRACTICE – WordPress Hooks | 00:00:00 | ||
| 024 PHP for WordPress Review | 00:00:00 | ||
| 03 Child Themes and Starter Themes | |||
| 025 Chlid Themes v Starter Themes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 026 Child Theme Basics | 00:00:00 | ||
| 027 DEMO – Child Theme | 00:00:00 | ||
| 028 PRACTICE – Child Themes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 029 Starter Theme Basics | 00:00:00 | ||
| 030 DEMO – Underscore Starter Theme | 00:00:00 | ||
| 031 PRACTICE – Starter Themes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 032 Child and Starter Themes Review | 00:00:00 | ||
| 04 The Template Hierarchy | |||
| 033 An Introduction to the Template Hierarchy | 00:00:00 | ||
| 034 Setting up the Theme Content and Files | 00:00:00 | ||
| 035 Working with the style.css file | 00:00:00 | ||
| 036 Working with the functions.php file | 00:00:00 | ||
| 037 Working with the index.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 038 Working with Headers in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 039 Working with Footers in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 040 Adding Menus and body_class | 00:00:00 | ||
| 041 Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 042 Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 043 Adding Markup to a Theme – Part 3 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 044 Working with Sidebars in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 045 Adding Widget Areas in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 046 Working with the Loop | 00:00:00 | ||
| 047 Creating Content Includes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 048 Working with the singular.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 049 Working with the single.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 050 Adding a single-post.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 051 Working with the comments.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 052 Working with Post Formats in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 053 The home.php for the Blog Homepage | 00:00:00 | ||
| 054 Working with archive.php and Archives in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 055 Working with the author.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 056 Working with author-id.php and author-nicename.php templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 057 Working with Category Archive Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 058 Working with Date Archive Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 059 Working with Media Attachment Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 060 Mime Type Templates Further Explained | 00:00:00 | ||
| 061 Working with Page Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 062 Working with the front-page.php Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 063 Working with Custom Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 064 Adding a 404.php template | 00:00:00 | ||
| 065 Working with Search Templates | 00:00:00 | ||
| 066 Working with Custom Post Type Archives | 00:00:00 | ||
| 067 Working with Custom Post Type Single Pages – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 068 Working with Custom Post Type Single Pages – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 068 Working with Custom Post Type Single Pages – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 069 Working with Custom Taxonomy Archives – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 070 Working with Custom Taxonomy Archives – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 071 Working with Multiple CSS Files | 00:00:00 | ||
| 072 Including JavaScript in Your Themes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 073 Working with JavaScript Dependencies (like jQuery) | 00:00:00 | ||
| 074 Template Hierarchy Review | 00:00:00 | ||
| 05 Template Tags | |||
| 075 An Introduction to Template Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 076 General Template Tags – Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| 077 General Tags – Include Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 078 General Tags – Login Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 079 General Tags – bloginfo | 00:00:00 | ||
| 080 General Tags – Archive Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 081 General Tags – Archive Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 082 General Tags – Calendar Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 083 General Tags – Misc Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 084 PRACTICE – General Template Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 085 PRACTICE – General Template Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 086 Navigation Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 087 Navigation Tags – CSS Classes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 088 Navigation Tags – Walker Class | 00:00:00 | ||
| 089 PRACTICE – Navigation Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 090 PRACTICE – Navigation Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 091 Post Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 092 Post Tags – Class Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 093 Post Tags – Common Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 094 Post Tags – Common Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 095 Post Tags – Date Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 096 Post Tags – Attachment Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 097 Post Tags – Misc Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 098 Post Tags – get_ Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 099 PRACTICE – Post Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 100 PRACTICE – Post Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 101 Thumbnail Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 102 PRACTICE – Thumbnail Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 103 PRACTICE – Thumbnail Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 104 Link Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 105 PRACTICE – Link Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 106 PRACTICE – Link Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 107 Introduction to Comment Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 108 Common Comment Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 109 PRACTICE – Comment Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 110 PRACTICE – Comment Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 111 Author Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 112 PRACTICE – Author Tags – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 113 PRACTICE – Author Tags – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 114 Conditional Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 115 Sanitization Escaping Localization | 00:00:00 | ||
| 116 DEMO – Sanitization Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 117 DEMO – Escaping Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 118 DEMO – Localization Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 119 A Review of Template Tags | 00:00:00 | ||
| 06 Action and Filter Hooks in WordPress | |||
| 120 An Introduction to Hooks in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 121 do_action add_action remove_action | 00:00:00 | ||
| 121 do_action add_action remove_action | 00:00:00 | ||
| 123 The WordPress Action Runtime Lifecycle | 00:00:00 | ||
| 124 Exploring Action Hooks with wp_actions and wp_filter | 00:00:00 | ||
| 125 Exploring Action Hooks with R Debug | 00:00:00 | ||
| 126 Exploring Action Hooks with Debug Bar Plugins | 00:00:00 | ||
| 127 Exploring Action Hooks with Simply Show Hooks Plugin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 128 Exploring Action Hook DEMOs | 00:00:00 | ||
| 129 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – do_action | 00:00:00 | ||
| 130 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – enqueue_scripts | 00:00:00 | ||
| 131 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – widget_init | 00:00:00 | ||
| 132 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – loop_end() | 00:00:00 | ||
| 133 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – template_redirect() | 00:00:00 | ||
| 134 DEMO – WordPress Action Hook – save_post() | 00:00:00 | ||
| 135 PRACTICE – WordPress Action Hooks – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 136 PRACTICE – WordPress Action Hooks – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 137 Filter Hooks in WordPress | 00:00:00 | ||
| 138 apply_filters() add_filter() remove_filter() | 00:00:00 | ||
| 139 apply_filter() in WordPress Core | 00:00:00 | ||
| 140 Exploring Filter Hooks with wp_filter | 00:00:00 | ||
| 141 Exploring Filter Hooks with R Debug | 00:00:00 | ||
| 142 Exploring Filter Hooks with Debug Bar Plugin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 143 Exploring Filter Hooks with Simply Show Hooks Plugin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 144 Exploring Filter Hook DEMOs | 00:00:00 | ||
| 145 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – apply_filters | 00:00:00 | ||
| 146 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – the_title | 00:00:00 | ||
| 147 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – the_content | 00:00:00 | ||
| 148 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – excerpt_more | 00:00:00 | ||
| 149 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – body_class | 00:00:00 | ||
| 150 DEMO – WordPress Filter Hook – manage_posts_columns | 00:00:00 | ||
| 151 PRACTICE – WordPress Filter Hooks – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 152 PRACTICE – WordPress Filter Hooks – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 153 Hooks in WordPress Review | 00:00:00 | ||
| 07 Plugin Development | |||
| 154 Introduction to Plugin Development | 00:00:00 | ||
| 155 Setting Up the Files | 00:00:00 | ||
| 156 Plugin Header | 00:00:00 | ||
| 157 Settings Pages | 00:00:00 | ||
| 158 Settings Sub Pages | 00:00:00 | ||
| 159 Link to Settings | 00:00:00 | ||
| 160 Plugin File Paths | 00:00:00 | ||
| 161 Enqueuing CSS | 00:00:00 | ||
| 162 Enqueuing JS | 00:00:00 | ||
| 163 Enqueuing Conditionally | 00:00:00 | ||
| 164 PRACTICE – Setup – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 165 PRACTICE – Setup – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 166 The Options API | 00:00:00 | ||
| 167 Saving Array Options | 00:00:00 | ||
| 168 PRACTICE Options – Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 169 PRACTICE Options – Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 170 Settings API | 00:00:00 | ||
| 171 Settings Sections | 00:00:00 | ||
| 172 Settings Fields | 00:00:00 | ||
| 173 More Settings Fields | 00:00:00 | ||
| 174 Adding Fields to Existing Sections | 00:00:00 | ||
| 175 An Introduction to Plugins Review | 00:00:00 | ||
3 STUDENTS ENROLLED
