WordPress Development: Coding Practice
1h 19mBeginner2023-08-25
Authors

Joe Casabona
Course Developer, Founder of Creator Courses
Course details
If you use WordPress—and chances are you do, since it’s the most popular CMS in the world—it’s important to keep your skills sharp. In this course, developer and WordPress expert Joe Casabona presents a series of coding challenges that you can use to test your skills, find your strengths, and discover the areas where you need more practice. Joe starts with some common WordPress problems, like randomizing and sorting posts, and moves up to more advanced and specific problems you may encounter. Test your abilities using actions and filters, sanitizing input and output, creating simple plugins, and more—all using PHP and WordPress, with no additional frameworks required.
Skills covered
WordPressContent Management Systems (CMS)Web DevelopmentOpen SourceOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome to Level-Up - WordPress Development
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - Setting up your local environment
1. Challenges
- 04 - Dynamic copyright year
- 05 - Randomize posts
- 06 - Get post meta
- 07 - Change admin colors based on the server
- 08 - Create your own block pattern
- 09 - Append a message to RSS content
- 10 - Sanitize input
- 11 - Sanitize output
- 12 - Add a sitewide banner to the top of the page
- 13 - Register a custom post type
- 14 - Store user meta
- 15 - Send an email to the admin when a plugin is activated
- 16 - When a user logs in, greet them by their name
- 17 - Create a transient
- 18 - Hide content based on a query string
Conclusion
- 19 - Next steps
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