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Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code

By coursezy
19/Apr/2026
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Course Description

Unlock the full power of WordPress and go beyond "just a blog platform" by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites.

Updated for 2024: New chapters about The Interactivity API, Block Themes, Full Site Editing, Gutenberg Block Type Creation, Plugin Development, React.js basics, custom MySQL essentials, and more!

I've spent the last 12 years studying WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript and now I'm here to teach you everything I know. Come along on this journey with me and become 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
And much more!