Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code

• Why code is the key to building whatever you can imagine with WordPress
• The ability to write PHP to manipulate the data of a WordPress site
• The ability to write JavaScript to add on-the-fly interactivity to a WordPress site
• How to code your own new custom block types for the “Gutenberg” Block Editor
• The skills, knowledge and vocabulary to work professionally as a WordPress developer

Together we will build a website for a fictional university and along the way we will:

• Install WordPress on your personal computer so you have a private playground copy of WordPress to practice and experiment with
• Get introduced to the PHP language (this is what powers WordPress)
• Set Up a New Theme (You’ll learn how to convert any HTML template into a living breathing WordPress theme)
• Create Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
• Relate pieces of content with each other (e.g. a professor and a program)
• Learn the basics of (object-oriented) JavaScript
• Leverage the WP REST API
• Learn to use JavaScript to communicate with the WordPress back-end on-the-fly
• Let visitors sign up for a basic account on our site
• Build a “My Notes” feature (user specific single page application with real-time CRUD actions)
• Let users “like” or “heart” a professor (update the professor’s like count on-the-fly)
• Deploy our website live up onto the web for the entire world to view