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See full Developer pathway outlined in this document.

Module 1: A brief overview of how WordPress works

Objective: Understand how a web server powers a WordPress site, from the hardware stack through to the database. Review and follow a standard front end and admin page request.

Lessons

  • Introduction
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Module 2: The programming languages of WordPress

Objective: Introduce the 5 programming languages of WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL covering HTML and Accessibility, HTML Block markup, and React as a JavaScript framework.

Lessons

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • MySQL

Module 3: WordPress Hooks

Objective: Understand the WordPress hooks system

  • Introduction to Action and Filter hooks

Module 4: An introduction to developing WordPress themes

Objective: Introduce the foundational elements of WordPress theme development, with a brief overview of classic themes.

Lessons

  • Theme requirements
  • Theme.json settings and styles
  • Templates and template parts
  • The WordPress Template Hierarchy
  • Patterns
  • Create Block Theme plugin
  • Classic themes

Module 5: An introduction to developing WordPress plugins

Objective: Introduce the foundational elements of WordPress plugin development.

Lessons

  • Plugin requirements
  • Creating custom post types and taxonomies
  • Using post meta
  • Rendering information
  • Enqueuing CSS and JavaScript

Module 6: An introduction to developing WordPress blocks

Objective: Introduce the foundational elements of block development for WordPress.

Lessons

  • Setting up the block development requirements
  • Scaffolding a new block using Create Block
  • Building your first custom block
  • Styling your WordPress Blocks
  • Block Supports
  • Using Block Attributes

Module 7: An introduction to developing for WordPress securely

Objective: Covers the guiding principles of developing plugins and themes securely, with examples of the five most common security problems, and how to avoid them.

Lessons

  • Introduction to developing plugins securely
  • Preventing common vulnerabilities

Module 8: An introduction to Internationalization

Objective: Introduce the concept of internationalizing your WordPress code.

Lessons

  • What is Internationalization
  • The commonly used Internationalization Functions

Module 9: An introduction to Roles and Capabilities

Objective: Introduce the User Roles and Capabilities, and how to limit access to content by using them.

Lessons

  • How to create/modify/remove roles and capabilities
  • How to check user capabilities
  • Custom content types and capabilities

Module 10: An introduction to Common WordPress APIs

Objective: Introduce the most common WordPress APIs, and how to use them.

Lessons

  • Responsive Images
  • Dashboard widgets
  • Database
  • Filesystem
  • Global Variables
  • Metadata
  • Options
  • HTTP Requests
  • Rewrite
  • Settings
  • Shortcode
  • Transients

Module 11: An introduction to the WordPress REST API

Objective: Introduce the WordPress REST API, and how to use it to interact with core WordPress data.

Lessons

  • The WordPress REST API under the hood
  • Using the WordPress REST API
  • Interacting with the WordPress REST API
  • Extending the WordPress REST API

Module 12: An introduction to WordPress multisite

Objective: An overview of how to set up and manage a WordPress multisite, as well as how to develop themes and plugins for multisite.

Lessons

  • Setting up a WordPress multisite
  • Managing a WordPress multisite
  • Advanced Multisite management
  • Building plugins and themes that support multisite
  • The differences between developing for multisite vs single site

Module 13: Debugging in WordPress

Objective: Introduce built in tools and techniques for debugging WordPress plugin or theme code.

Lessons

  • Enabling the built-in WordPress debugging options
  • Examining the state of your PHP code
  • Examining the state of your JavaScript
  • Popular debugging plugins