Mastering WordPress Development: Complete Guide
Build powerful WordPress sites—from setup to e-commerce, custom themes, plugins, SEO, freelancing & full-scale projects
Development ,Web Development,PHP
Lectures -106
Duration -40 hours
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Course Description
You'll start with the basics of WordPress—what it is, how it powers over 40% of the internet, and how to install and configure it both locally and on a live server. You'll learn how to choose the right hosting, set up a domain, and understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
From there, you'll explore content creation using posts, pages, categories, and media, and master the Gutenberg block editor and powerful page builders like Elementor. You'll also learn how to organize your content for better SEO, user experience, and engagement.
Next, dive into site customization with themes, widgets, menus, and custom CSS. You’ll create a child theme, ensuring your changes are safe and update-proof. With plugin management, you’ll extend your site’s features securely and efficiently. You’ll even create custom post types and taxonomies for unique content needs.
In the advanced development section, you’ll learn how to:
- Build custom themes from scratch using PHP and WordPress templating
- Develop your own plugins and shortcodes
- Work with WordPress hooks: actions and filters
- Use the WordPress REST API for headless site development
- Connect WordPress with JavaScript frameworks like React or Vue
This course also includes an entire module on WooCommerce, where you'll learn to set up and manage online stores—configure payments, shipping, product pages, and design custom eCommerce experiences.
To ensure your sites are fast, secure, and scalable, you'll explore performance optimization, backups, updates, caching, and web security best practices. Plus, you'll gain insights into search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing strategies to drive traffic and grow your brand or business.
You’ll also get a roadmap for freelancing and agency work—from building your portfolio and pricing projects to handling clients and scaling your business.
Finally, in the capstone project, you’ll build a fully functional, professional website from scratch. You'll apply everything you've learned—content creation, custom theme development, WooCommerce integration, performance tuning, and deployment.
By the end of the course, you'll confidently be able to:
- Build any kind of WordPress website—from blogs to eCommerce stores
- Customize and extend functionality using plugins, themes, and code
- Optimize sites for performance, SEO, security, and mobile responsiveness
- Deploy real-world projects and manage them like a pro developer
This course is ideal for beginners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, designers, content creators, marketers, and aspiring developers who want to unlock the full power of WordPress.
Goals
- Understand how WordPress works as a CMS and platform for dynamic websites.
- Set up WordPress locally and on web servers using best practices.
- Manage content using blocks, categories, taxonomies, and media libraries.
- Customize website appearance through themes, widgets, menus, and child themes.
- Extend site functionality with essential plugins and custom post types.
- Implement user management, security, and site optimization strategies.
- Build custom WordPress themes, plugins, and templates using PHP and hooks.
- Integrate REST APIs and explore headless WordPress concepts.
- Launch and manage WooCommerce-powered online stores.
- Optimize websites for SEO, speed, and conversions.
- Apply real-world freelancing and agency workflows with WordPress.
- Complete a capstone project to showcase full-site development skills.
Prerequisites
- No prior coding or web development experience is required.
- Basic computer and internet navigation skills.
- A laptop or desktop with internet access.
- Willingness to install and experiment with tools like WordPress, plugins, and local servers.
- Curiosity about how websites work and interest in web design or development

Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction to WordPress
10 Lectures
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0.0 Introduction of the course 02:51 02:51
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1.1 What is Wordpress 24:39 24:39
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1.2 Wordpress.com vs Wordpress.org 33:59 33:59
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1.3 Case Studies of WordPress 30:35 30:35
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1.4 Setting Up Environment 16:52 16:52
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1.5 Installing Wordpress Locally 22:22 22:22
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1.6 Version Control & Git 24:53 24:53
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1.7 Navigating Wordpress Dashboard 27:24 27:24
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1.8 Configuring Settings 17:43 17:43
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1.9 Customizing Dashboard 23:59 23:59
Creating and Managing Content
16 Lectures

Customizing Appearance
11 Lectures

Extending Functionality with Plugins
10 Lectures

Site Management, Security, and Optimization
12 Lectures

Advanced WordPress Development
13 Lectures

E-Commerce with WooCommerce
12 Lectures

SEO, Marketing, and Monetization
10 Lectures

WordPress for Business, Freelancing, and Agencies
10 Lectures

Capstone Project
2 Lectures

Instructor Details

Selfcode Academy
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