Hi,
I hope everyone has a great day!
First of all, sorry for my English, this is not my first language 🙂
I would like to become a WordPress developer and be able to create websites first just for friends and family, but later it would be nice to offer them for small businesses etc.
I learned HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python before, I have basic knowledge in these. My goal is to really understand WordPress and to be able to create custom websites and themes. I am beginner but eager to learn and I am ready to put in the hard work, I just don’t know where should I start. There are a million udemy, skillshare and youtube courses, but I am not sure which one is the best as a beginner. A lot of them has Elementor or Divi in the title, I am also not sure if I need these or not for start. I would like to understand everything I do in WordPress and create my own themes, customize things etc.
Could you please recommend a Youtube channel or a Skillshare/Udemy course which you think is really useful to start?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Becoming a WordPress developer
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No video recommendations, but… Learn PHP. Build a simple child theme. Build a simple plugin. Repeat. Ignore anything to do with pagebuilders for now and get the core knowledge down.
If you want to become a WP backend dev, you have to first learn PHP alongside HTML and JS that you already know.
I’ll start there and then move to WP codex.
Learn PHP deeply.
Learn PHP, then check out Digging into WordPress.
In my opinion if you are having the basic understanding with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you can start learning only PHP if you want to build a custom themes, of course this means learning the documentation provided by WordPress as well.
However to learn WordPress basics and understand it better you can watch “WP Beginner” channel they offer a variety of tutorials, tips and tricks that will help you.
I personally started out by watching YouTube videos and working on real projects, and learned from my own mistakes.
While when it comes to the courses they are good too but I still think you have everything on YouTube and Google don’t spend to much on buying courses some of them are even outdated.
Join the online workshops. Highly recommend. These are great for new users of WordPress and old pros.
These all get saved to Check out [Nick Diego’s videos]) for how to use, build, and customize block themes.
All of these resources are completely free. Personally, I started with the codex because that and the WordPress.org support forums were pretty much all there was when I started 15 years ago. edit: I started with only minimal HTML and CSS knowledge. Learned everything else through the resources above.
Download and install XAMPP, this will let you run an Apache server and WordPress locally on your machine. Learn the LAMP stack. Definitely polish up on PHP and look up how to build child themes.
Stay away from Divi or Elementor, at least for the time being.
Practice. Have a use case. Something you need to accomplish.
Then php and the WordPress codex. Learn filters, hooks. How it all relates. CSS, HTML, JavaScript.
Start with a child theme. Might include filters or functions to modify a plugin or the parent theme, or something custom.
For whatever you need to accomplish there is more than one way to get there. Keep an open mind.
Get friendly with debug and log files and the inspect tool in your browser. Caching can make you crazy, If you’ve checked something and it’s still stupid wrong, clear all the caches.
Strong Google search skills come in handy.
There are many ways to get where you want to go.
Learn PHP for WordPress backend development. For front-end, you can start learning a bit React/Redux for (Gutenberg/block editor). of course, HTML, CSS, JavaScript is a must.
Hi, guys. I am at learning stage of web desiging. I have found wordpress very interesting, its just my personal experience. Since its less complex and also, for beginners like me, it would be absolutely a great way to begin with.
Great advise in the comments already.
Websites have a fair bit of creativity. The ability to do pixel perfect theme related work is an important skill. Designers can create complex design, the ability to take that design and render it precisely in wordpress ..is an asset.
Learn PHP my man, vanilla is the best, WordPress is actually efficient if you use barebones and effectively maintain clean, organized, and none wasteful code. I started here a while ago and been going with more resources:
He seems to be back recently new uploads, sadly the initial quality of the videos is… minimum… but the info is priceless. It just takes personal motivation to make the move forward… or be in cryo stasis as before mentioned