Course details
"His teaching skills are very sharp, and you can feel that the course was meticulously planned, since there are no flaws in between lessons. Glad that I found it!"
(Rob Lopes - Student)
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Every day small businesses, professionals and entrepreneurs realize how profitable is to have a website. WordPress is a powerful tool for creating dynamic, fast and visually appealing websites for those audiences.
Maybe you're a web designer / web developer who wants to create your own custom themes. You can use WordPress to start up your own website, or help your clients with their own projects. Or maybe you're daring to dream your highest dream and want to sell your own custom theme on marketplaces such as Theme Forest.
Well, you can't achieve your goal if first you can't learn the basics of WordPress theme development.
So now it's your turn! In this course you will learn how to build your own WordPress theme from scratch, using the latest Bootstrap 4 version! This course will be your first step in the wide world of WordPress!
Learn How to Build Your Own WordPress Theme From Scratch
• Master WordPress theme creation from the beginning
• Have more control over your theme and learn step by step how to create your site with a modern and responsive look
• Expand your knowledge by applying advanced techniques that set you apart from other professionals who also create for WordPress
Master the Creation of a WordPress Themes in an Easy and Straightforward Way
Currently it is estimated that around 20% of sites worldwide are built with WordPress. This number is increasing every day because WordPress is easy to use and it's secure.
If you already develop websites, you will see how fast it is to create with WordPress. You will also understand why it has created a passionate community of followers around it.
There are several benefits for those who know how to build a custom WordPress theme. In addition to knowing how to solve problems more easily, learning how to create a theme from scratch literally puts you in control of your layout. The only limit will be your own creativity.
Course Overview
This course is designed to bring the basic concepts of WordPress theme creation to students worldwide. It contains more than 50 lectures that will bring your career as a WordPress theme developer to a whole new level.
It has been carefully designed for professionals who already have minimal knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and wish to take a step forward in understanding how a WordPress theme works.
This is not only a course on how to build a simple website. I will guide you on how to create a whole custom WordPress theme, with the latest Bootstrap 4, that you can later on distribute or sell.
Let's start by learning the basic building blocks of a theme. You'll see what it takes to register it in the WordPress admin dashboard, create your own menus and widget areas.
You will also learn how to design the theme's inner pages, all in a very straightforward way. In addition, throughout the lessons, I'll be challenging you to bring your own solutions to the topics discussed. It will be a very good chance for you to practice what you'll be learning!
Although this is an entry level, intermediate level course, you will take your knowledge to a new level with a handful of advanced techniques. I'll teach you how to use the WordPress Theme Customizer and you'll also learn how to deal with theme internationalization and tools such as the TGM Plugin Activation. Such tools will differentiate your work from that of other professionals who also build themes with WordPress.
You'll also have access to all the files created during lessons. All of them well organized for you to review or correct your own code.
At the end of the course, you will have learned how to create your own theme, from scratch, and confidently recreate a theme of your own, or turn a simple HTML template into a WordPress custom theme. In addition, at the end of the course, you will receive Udemy's exclusive certificate!
Are you ready? So, let's get started!
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UPDATE 12/14/2017: Little by little I'll be applying zoom-in to all of the videos where code is being typed. Thanks student Ramachandran Varadrajan
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This course is based on my Brazilian Portuguese course. Take a look at some testimonials from my students:
"Thanks to your course, I was hired by a company and I'm developing my first theme there."
(Everaldo Santos Silva)
"The best WordPress course I've done until today!! I highly recommend it to everyone! Marcelo explains very well and makes clear every CMS tool. Anyway, I'm happy to study the lessons and surely recommend this course!"
(Carlos Júnior Uchôa Oliveira)
"I like the way he talks, naturally and calmly. It is not tiresome to watch the lessons."
(Rafaelle Rodrigues)
"I'm almost done with the lessons, and they are really well elaborated. It's hard for you to get lost in the content. And, if that's the case, nothing that skipping backward on the video won't solve. Great content!"
(Gustavo Siqueira)
"The course is very good. In only 10 lessons I have already been able to migrate a website that I developed in html to WordPress."
(Renanchardson Fernandes de Souza)
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