The Complete WordPress Development & Customization Course

Course details

Have you ever wanted to learn how to customize a WordPress theme or plugin so that it looks and works exactly the way you want it to? Most times our ability to build a WordPress website depends heavily on what options are available to us by the theme and plugins we use. This course aims to break through this barrier by teaching you how to build your very own WordPress functions and templates. 

In this course, you will learn

• How WordPress works behind the scenes to display content on your website
• How to build your own custom page templates
• How to write WordPress functions
• How to work with custom post types and advanced custom fields
• How to work with WordPress template tags
• How to create and display your very own custom sidebars
• and so much more .....

We are going to use a starter theme (underscores) to build a complete WordPress blog about movies.

The first section will introduce you to the core template files that you will find in every WordPress theme and also the WordPress template hierarchy which determines what template file displays content.

We will then move on to learn about WordPress template tags and the almighty WordPress loop which is responsible for displaying the content of your post types. We will then learn how to create custom image sizes so that you will have total control on how media files are displayed on your website. We will round up section 4 by learning how to customize the WordPress query and post excerpts.

We will cover custom post types and advanced custom fields in the next section which are crucial to your arsenal as a WordPress developer. You will then learn how to create your very own custom template files so you can determine how content is displayed on your website.

Custom sidebars and how to create and display them comes next. We will progress to start building our custom home page template and also learn how to properly load custom style sheets.

For the rest of the course, we will cover all other important topics that are necessary for you to become a bonafide WordPress developer capable of customizing any WordPress theme.