Get the skills you need to develop advanced websites with WordPress as the back-end solution. With this learning path, you'll build advanced WordPress development skills, develop advanced solutions in traditional themes and plugins, and extend the functionality of WordPress with the REST API.
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Build advanced WordPress themes.
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Explore advanced plugin development.
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Learn how to build web solutions with the WordPress REST API.
Courses
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1
WordPress: Building a Secure Site51mWordPress: Building a Secure Site
By: Allie Nimmons
Learn how to launch a WordPress website that is safe and secure. Find out how to address vulnerabilities, create and manage safe user accounts, edit files for security, and more.
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WordPress: Internationalization1h 22mWordPress: Internationalization
By: Carrie Dils
Take your WordPress site worldwide. Use the built-in internationalization features and functions to make your themes and plugins translation-ready.
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3
WordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies2h 9mWordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
By: Joe Casabona
Custom content is what makes WordPress shine. Learn how to create custom post types and taxonomies to extend what you can do with WordPress.
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4
Using Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress1h 33mUsing Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress
By: Joe Casabona
Find out how to use CMB2 as a framework to create advanced and extended WordPress posts using custom meta fields, and explore ways to display that info on the frontend.
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WordPress: Action and Filter Hooks1h 25mWordPress: Action and Filter Hooks
By: Carrie Dils
Take the next step in WordPress development. Learn how to work with action and filter hooks and use them to customize the behavior of WordPress core, themes, and plugins.
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WordPress: Everything about Plugins1h 21mWordPress: Everything about Plugins
By: Allie Nimmons
Understand how, when, and why to use plugins in your WordPress site-building process.
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7
WordPress: REST API2h 7mWordPress: REST API
By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Use the WordPress REST API to interact remotely with your WordPress site. Learn how to use the API inside and outside of WordPress, modify responses, and more.
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Building a Headless WordPress App with REST API2h 8mBuilding a Headless WordPress App with REST API
By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Learn how to build a headless app—a standalone app that uses WordPress as a back end—using OAuth2, JavaScript, and the WordPress REST API.
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Building a Headless WordPress Site with Gatsby2h 31mBuilding a Headless WordPress Site with Gatsby
By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Use Gatsby with WordPress to create a web publishing powerhouse. Learn how to use WordPress as a CMS data source to populate a Gatsby site.
Instructors
Allie Nimmons
WordPress Person, Course Instructor & Diversity Advocate
Carrie Dils
Business Consultant, Web Instructor, WordPress Developer, Speaker
Joe Casabona
I help podcasters save 12+ hours per week so they can spend their time growing and monetizing their show.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Tech and society, explained.