From the course: WordPress: Building Child Themes
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From the course: WordPress: Building Child Themes
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- [Instructor] Building a child theme is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to customizing your WordPress site. From here, you can dig in and do so many things. You can dig even deeper into WordPress themes and create your own themes from scratch. If that's interesting to you, check out WordPress: Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores. You can also focus on backend development and learn all about custom functionality, which you can add through your theme or custom plugins, in which case I recommend WordPress: Plugin Development. There's also a bunch of courses just on using WordPress, in general, including setting up contact forms, optimizing your site for search engines, aka SEO, and building an online store with WooCommerce. No matter which way you go, I encourage you to be curious. We looked at only maybe 2% of the commonly used WordPress functions. When you think a function for something should exist, it likely does. Feel free to explore WordPress.org to try to…
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