Take your HTML and CSS skills to the next level, by mastering the world's most popular content management system for building websites!
Key Features
- Confidently create different types of WordPress website
- Gain a deep knowledge of WordPress such as custom headers, plugins, themes, and more
- Convert HTML and CSS websites into WordPress themes
Book Description
This course is for anybody looking for a career building WordPress websites or themes, or even hobbyists looking to learn a new skill.
In this course, we will be using WordPress 4.8; however, the course is compatible with all the newer versions of WordPress.
We begin the course by getting you familiar with WordPress and looking at how to install it using a local host. We then look at WordPress essentials while you build your very own blog website.
Then we will move on customizing our blog. Also, optimize your WordPress website for search engines and create backups.
The second project takes your WordPress knowledge even further. We create a fully functional eCommerce T-Shirt store. More techniques are introduced throughout this project such as child themes, dealing with products, categories, shipping, and taxes, all while building a beautiful, customized website.
After that, we move things on even further by introducing you to WordPress theme development and converting an existing HTML and CSS website into a fully functional WordPress theme. This section involves coding in PHP; however, if you are new to PHP a dedicated PHP basics section will get you up to speed.
This project introduces new techniques, and you will gain a deeper knowledge of how WordPress themes are created. You will learn how WordPress templates are used and employ various WordPress functions to build your theme.
Finally, the last section focuses on useful techniques to enhance your WordPress knowledge. Here we will cover exporting localhost websites to a live server, various plugins, and more.
By the end of this course, you will have mastered all the WordPress skills that you would need for your own web design project.
All the code and supporting files for this course are available at - https://github.com/PacktPublishing/WordPress-Academy-Learn-WordPress-step-by-step
What you will learn
- Create different types of WordPress website
- Learn to convert HTML and CSS websites into WordPress themes
- Add WordPress content such as pages, blog posts, menus, and more
- Understand what WordPress widgets are and how to use them
- Apply basic SEO best practices to improve page rankings
- Understand how WordPress works with PHP page templates
Who this book is for
This course is ideal for novice students keen to begin their journey into web development and WordPress, or students who want to refresh their skills. It will also be useful for designers (or anybody from another industry) keen to get a grounding in how a website is built.
The course uses WordPress 4.8; however, the course is compatible with all the newer versions of WordPress.
