Professional WordPress Theme Development

This course is for any Wordpress user or web developer who would like to learn how to create powerful Wordpress themes and add development skills to their resume.

If you already have basic WordPress skills and wanted to know how themes are developed, then this is the perfect course for you. This course will super-size your WP skills and make you a powerful theme developer.

Become a confident WordPress theme developer and learn real WordPress theme coding here! This course contains no outside links to coding sites. All the code you need to learn is in this course. The instructor uses this code with every WordPress theme and has built over 300 WordPress themes for clients and employers.

BONUS: FREE CODE TO FULLY FUNCTIONAL 2 WORDPRESS THEMES:

All students get two themes to customize with the code from this course:
1. plain vanilla WordPress theme
2. Twitter Bootstrap WordPress theme

This course delves more into these theme development concepts with all the code you need to download and make it your own:

1. Creating your own template tags and calling them in your theme PHP files
2. Shortcodes
3. Page Templates
4. Displaying custom field data in your templates
5. Child themes
6. Adding Theme Support including custom headers, backgrounds, post formats, HTML title tags and more
7. Developing your own template tags
8. Creating your own API hooks and calling them in any PHP file of your theme.
9. Registering and calling dynamic sidebars
10. Detailed menus and their menu locations
11. The 2 WordPress Theme APIs: The "Customizer" (Theme Customization API) and the Theme Modification API

An entire section of lectures showing how to display posts and pages of various combinations.

This course offers an entire section teaching how to displaying posts and pages in any combination including, but not limited to:

1. post status (published, private, revision, etc)
2. by author
3. password protected
4. by custom post type
5. by a specific modified or published date
6. list of featured images from posts
7. cutting off the list of posts and pages by a certain number
8. Displaying posts and pages in a specific order by any field

Bonus Lectures With Examples

I offer code samples from popular post lists including:

1. latest blog posts
2. most recent pages
3. today's posts
4. random lists of posts
5. posts and pages by all authors
6. posts and pages by a specific post type

Materials in this Course:

This course includes videos with example code as well as additional code files to download the code so students can concentrate using the code in their WordPress theme files, but the videos will show how to modify the code to create the final Wordpress website.

Course Structure:

This course offers videos with the instructor explaining how to use and change the code as needed.