Complete Wordpress Developer Course - Plugins & Themes

Learn how to develop WordPress themes and plugins. Includes React and Gutenberg development.

What you'll learn
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
Integrate and extend WooCommerce & BuddyPress into your theme/plugin.
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.
Requirements
You should have a good understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and PHP.
You should know how to set up a local environment.
You should know how to install WordPress and navigate around.
A text editor of your choice.
Description
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 ReactIn 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 DevelopmentThis 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's a lot of money to be made in this industry and I will show you how. You will also be taught how to sell your plugin online and make a profit. This includes licensing and learning about the various platforms out there to help you with marketing.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

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Overview

Lecture 2 Getting to know WordPress

Lecture 3 Setting up for WordPress

Lecture 4 Exploring Environments and Text Editors

Lecture 5 PHP Refresher & WordPress Coding Standards

Lecture 6 Lectures Notes

Section 2: Theme Development Foundation

Lecture 7 Exploring WordPress & Configuring the wp-config.php file

Lecture 8 File Headers

Lecture 9 Functions File & Action Hooks

Lecture 10 Loading styles and scripts with enqueues

Lecture 11 Cache Issues

Lecture 12 Adding Dummy Content

Lecture 13 Menu Support

Lecture 14 Aside: Menu Walker

Lecture 15 Creating Header & Footer Areas

Lecture 16 Creating Sidebars and Widget Areas

Lecture 17 Formatting the search form

Lecture 18 The Loop

Lecture 19 Template Parts

Lecture 20 Template Tags

Lecture 21 Pagination

Lecture 22 Lectures Notes & Download Source Code for this Section

Section 3: Templates & The Customizer

Lecture 23 Template Hierarchy & Single Post Template

Lecture 24 Comments Template

Lecture 25 Author Template Tags

Lecture 26 Related Posts using the WP_Query Class

Lecture 27 Page Template

Lecture 28 404 and Category Template

Lecture 29 Date Template

Lecture 30 Attachment Templates

Lecture 31 Search and Custom Templates

Lecture 32 Completing the Header, Title and Ad Sections

Lecture 33 Theme Customizer API

Lecture 34 Dropdown and Checkboxes using the Customizer API

Lecture 35 Customizer Transports and Overriding existing Settings

Lecture 36 Color & Upload Controllers for the Customizer

Lecture 37 More Theme Support & Creating Starter Content

Lecture 38 Displaying Popular Posts and Conditional Tags

Lecture 39 Finishing Touches

Lecture 40 Lecture Notes & Download the Source Code

Section 4: Theme Templates

Lecture 41 Template Tags Overview

Lecture 42 General Tags

Lecture 43 Navigation Tags

Lecture 44 Link Tags

Lecture 45 Lecture Notes & Download the Source Code

Section 5: Plugin Development

Lecture 46 Overview

Lecture 47 Creating our First Plugin

Lecture 48 WordPress Action & Filter Hooks

Lecture 49 Custom Hooks and Prioritization

Lecture 50 Plugin Activation & Security

Lecture 51 Creating a Custom Post Type

Lecture 52 Metadata API

Lecture 53 Filter Hooks

Lecture 54 Creating Database Tables

Lecture 55 Download Assets

Lecture 56 Sending and using AJAX Requests

Lecture 57 Handling AJAX Requests and inserting data into the Database

Lecture 58 Changing the Custom Post Type’s Table Columns

Lecture 59 Lecture Notes & Download Source Code for this Section

Section 6: Gutenberg Prerequisites

Lecture 60 Gutenberg

Lecture 61 The Command Line / Terminal

Lecture 62 Getting started with NodeJS

Lecture 63 Modules and CommmonJS

Lecture 64 Built-in and 3rd Party Modules

Lecture 65 Introduction to Webpack and Dependencies

Lecture 66 Webpack Configuration

Lecture 67 Webpack Loaders & Babel

Lecture 68 ES6 Constants and Let

Lecture 69 ES6 Arrow Functions

Lecture 70 ES6 Modules & Destructuring

Lecture 71 Getting Started with React

Lecture 72 Reusing Components and Properties

Lecture 73 Lecture Notes

Section 7: Gutenberg Development

Lecture 74 Getting Started with Gutenberg

Lecture 75 Registering and Enqueueing the Block Assets

Lecture 76 Registering Blocks

Lecture 77 Block Settings

Lecture 78 Using the edit and save properties

Lecture 79 Inspector Controls

Lecture 80 Sidebar: ES6 Rest and Spread Operators

Lecture 81 Attributes

Lecture 82 Rendering the Block

Lecture 83 Styling Blocks

Lecture 84 Alignment Toolbar

Lecture 85 Block Alignment

Lecture 86 Lecture Notes & Download the Source Code

Section 8: Gutenberg Components

Lecture 87 High Level Overview of Gutenberg

Lecture 88 Gutenberg Blocks with ES5

Lecture 89 Rich Text Block

Lecture 90 Custom Toolbar

Lecture 91 Form Toggle

Lecture 92 Inspector Control Fields

Lecture 93 Media Uploads

Lecture 94 Lecture Notes & Download the Source Code

Section 9: Advanced Plugin Development

Lecture 95 Creating a Widget

Lecture 96 Cron Jobs and Transients API

Lecture 97 Creating a Shortcode for Frontend Publishing

Lecture 98 Sanitizing HTML input and inserting a post

Lecture 99 Custom Hooks with the Plugin API and sending E-mails

Lecture 100 Creating the Login & Registration Forms

Lecture 101 User Registration

Lecture 102 User Authentication

Lecture 103 Alternative User Authentication

Lecture 104 Adding a Logout Link

Lecture 105 Prepared Database Queries

Lecture 106 Uninstalling a Plugin

Lecture 107 Creating a WordPress Dashboard Widget

Lecture 108 Using the HTTP API to retrieve content from external services

Lecture 109 Flushing the Rewrite Rules with the Rewrite API

Lecture 110 Shortcodes Explored In-Depth

Lecture 111 Lecture Notes & Download the Source Code

Section 10: Creating Admin Forms

Lecture 112 WordPress APIs

Lecture 113 Options API

Lecture 114 Adding an Admin Menu and Page

Lecture 115 Processing Admin Form Settings

Lecture 116 Settings API

Lecture 117 Featured Images using the WordPress Media Uploader

Lecture 118 Custom User Roles and Capabilities

Lecture 119 Custom Taxonomies

Lecture 120 Custom Taxonomy Settings

Lecture 121 Custom Post Type UI and Advanced Custom Fields

Lecture 122 Lecture Notes & Download Source Code for this Section

Section 11: WooCommerce and BuddyPress Development

Lecture 123 Overview

Lecture 124 Getting Started with BuddyPress Theme Development

Lecture 125 BuddyPress Single Member Pages

Lecture 126 BuddyPress Single Member Custom Profile Tabs

Lecture 127 Custom CSS for BuddyPress

Lecture 128 Getting started with Woocommerce Development

Lecture 129 Woocommerce Product Page Templates

Lecture 130 Cart, E-mail, and Misc. Woocommerce Templates

Lecture 131 Custom Cart Menu Item for Woocommerce

Lecture 132 Lecture Notes & Download Source Code for this Section

Section 12: Finalizing the theme & plugin

Lecture 133 Custom Excerpts

Lecture 134 Custom Author Fields and Avatars

Lecture 135 Image Cropping

Lecture 136 Main Query Home Page Modifications

Lecture 137 Admin Notices

Lecture 138 Debugging Hooks, Queries and using Tools

Lecture 139 Securing the wp-config File

Lecture 140 SEO, Schema and Microdata

Lecture 141 RTL Support

Lecture 142 Accessibility

Lecture 143 Child Themes

Lecture 144 Translations

Lecture 145 Bundling Plugins with TGMPA

Lecture 146 Licensing & Making money with your Plugin/Theme

Lecture 147 Theme Starter Alternatives

Lecture 148 Conclusion

Lecture 149 Lecture Notes & Download Source Code for this Section

Section 13: BONUS Advanced Concepts

Lecture 150 Overview

Lecture 151 Getting Started with Composer

Lecture 152 Local by FlyWheel

Web designers and developers who wish to take their skills and profit to the next level.,Anyone who wants to generate new income streams,Anyone who wants to understand how the WordPress core truly works and extend it.,Entrepreneurs who want to learn how to build quality and premium plugins and themes.,Anyone who wants to go beyond the basic template tutorials and learn how to add unique features along with BuddyPress and Woocommerce integration.,This course is for students who are new to developing plugins and themes and would like to learn the best practices for developing themes/plugins.,The late beginner to PHP and JavaSricpt programming.