Learn to code and create stunning websites from scratch with this fun and easy online course on Wordpress, HTML, CSS, and more!
This course is all about making web development easy-peasy! You’ll get the hang of Wordpress so you can build websites that look awesome, and you’ll do it all from scratch—no stress here, just fun learning!
Learn how to code and launch websites from scratch with HTML, CSS, PHP, and Wordpress
Learn how to build and launch custom sites and web apps using Wordpress, PHP, HTML, CSS and more. This course is comprehensive and covers everything you need to know to build your own custom sites with Wordpress. No previous coding experience is required.
Wordpress powers about 25% of the websites in the world, so these skills are invaluable. Wordpress developers earn on average $65,000 per year and upwards of $100,000 with more experience. You can also use these skills for free-lancing or selling custom site themes to the public.
In this course, you'll learn Wordpress theme development in full. This will allow you to build your own websites and give them a custom user interface (look and feel). You'll walkaway with the confidence to create your own sites on the fly.
You can then extend your sites to have capabilities like social networking, login/logout systems, e-commerce/online store, membership subscriptions, and much more using the vast Wordpress plugin ecosystem.
Specifically, in this course, you'll learn the following:
Setting Up for Coding
How Wordpress Theme Files Work
Important PHP Code
How to Save and Display Page Content From a MySQLÂ Database
HTML5 and CSS3
Twitter Bootstrap for Layout and Design
Plugin API Hooks
Dynamic Navigation Menus
Common Wordpress Functions for the Functions File
Custom Page Templates
Integrating a User Commenting System
Custom Fonts
How to Read the Wordpress Documentation
Professional Best Practices in Wordpress Web Development
Build custom websites and themes using Wordpress
Build beautiful, modern user interfaces that are mobile-friendly
Create and sell custom Wordpress themes to the public
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Hi! I'm Rob Dey, and I'm passionate about education. I specialize in full-stack web development and have built applications for companies like Coca-Cola, Newell-Rubbermaid, Getaround, and more. I use a conversational style in my teaching so that students don't get bored. I aim to teach more like a friend walking you through the material rather than a jargon-heavy, mundane lecturer....
Great course, you should have included the child theme aproach development also
I took this course before Amazon acquired Cloud9. While the instructor taught this course and the Ruby on Rails one on Cloud9, both of these courses could be followed with a local server setup. For those who left this course a low rating, you might be able to reach the instructor on his site and ask him to upload a new video explaining how to work around not having Cloud9 anymore.
Everything well explained in detail. Engaging instructor. Some repetition to make sure things are learnt
Very basic, you'll need a few more courses in order to develop a basic starter theme that you can actually use
Yes, it was a good match for me... I know little bits about php, html, drupal and was stuck with wordpress trying to affect change on the look of the site
This is a fairly good course for learning the basics of Wordpress Theme development, but the information is outdated in some of the examples. Wordpress has updated its page editor since 2016, and the information on shortcodes was not at all helpful (it certainly didn't seem to make things any easier for a client when by the instructor's own admission the implementation is a little wonky).
Overall, it did help me to understand concepts that I found overwhelming when I tried to go through the Wordpress Theme Developer Handbook on my own.
One note: Cloud Nine is no longer in operation as presented. It has been apparently acquired by AWS.
I used Xammp and VS Code as my development environment and editor instead. It wasn't difficult to adapt my environment to what was presented.
This was a very good course! I found out the answers to many of my questions, and how it all fits together. I have a much better handle on themes now!
One thing that I would appreciate is a zipped file of the completed site to refer back to.
This is one of the best video courses I've seen. Everything is explained in such a simple way that even those who don't have any experience with PHP, WordPress, HTML, CSS or JS can create their own WordPress custom theme.
Fully recommended, worth its price.
For an experienced Front-end developer, who has little-to-no Wordpress or PHP experience, this is quite a good course to learn how to create a custom theme for Wordpress from start to finish.
Thanks for the course!
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Nico D. R.
Completely outdated, cloud9 is not available for new users to aws anymore..