Become a Junior WordPress Developer

Get the skills you need to develop custom websites powered by WordPress. With this learning path, you'll build a solid foundation for developing your advanced WordPress skills. Go beyond simply choosing WordPress themes, and learn how to actually manipulate WordPress to build content and designs that match your unique needs.

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WordPress Essential Training with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Learn how to create your own feature-rich blog or website with WordPress. Find out how to schedule posts, customize themes, install plugins, and more.

5h 28m • COURSE

WordPress: Building Child Themes with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Learn how to build a child theme on top of an existing theme, and create stylish new WordPress sites—without the advanced knowledge of a web developer.

2h 27m • COURSE

Making Sense of the CSS Box Model with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Reviews the core concepts of the CSS box model, including techniques such as styling text and images, floating content, using display properties, and positioning elements.

49m 38s • COURSE

Learning CSS with James Williamson

New to web design? Learn how to use CSS to style your websites. These tutorials cover the basic concepts, terminology, and techniques you need to read and write CSS.

2h 51m • COURSE

HTML Essential Training with James Williamson

Learn how to write HTML, the programming language that powers the web.

5h 54m • COURSE

jQuery for Web Designers with Joe Chellman

Learn how to use jQuery's core library and plugins to create richer, more usable sites—faster and more efficiently than with JavaScript alone.

2h 8m • COURSE

WordPress: Workflows with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Outlining three basic workflows for building WordPress sites: building your first website, building sites with custom themes, and building full-fledged sites for clients.

1h 6m • COURSE

WordPress: Accessibility with Joe Dolson

Learn how to use WordPress to build a beautiful and accessible website that can be used by people with all different types of abilities.

1h 31m • COURSE

Programming Foundations: Real-World Examples with Barron Stone

Learn how to connect programming theory to practice. This series of training videos explains basic programming concepts such as functions, variables, and loops by comparing them to real-life scenarios.

3h 8m • COURSE

WordPress: Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Learn how to build complex custom WordPress themes using the _s (aka Underscores) starter theme.

7h 5m • COURSE

Version Control for Everyone with Joe Chellman

Start incorporating version control into other types of digital projects, such as graphic design, writing, photography, web design, and even lesson planning.

2h 6m • COURSE

WordPress: Developing with Sass and Grunt.js with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Write simpler, smarter CSS for your WordPress themes and plugins with Sass and Grunt.js.

1h 36m • COURSE

WordPress Developer Tips: Information Architecture and the Template Hierarchy with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Use information architecture and the WordPress template hierarchy to build a cleaner and more effective design process.

21m 8s • COURSE

WordPress Plugins: Advanced Custom Fields with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add new fields to posts, pages, and custom post types in WordPress.

1h 39m • COURSE

WordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Create custom post types and taxonomies to extend the functionality of WordPress.

2h 26m • COURSE