WordPress Development Fundamentals: Themes, Plugins, and Modern Blocks

Creating custom solutions in WordPress gives you full control over website architecture, design, and functionality. This text-based course guides you through foundational concepts and modern development practices so you can confidently write clean, maintainable code for the web. What you'll learn: - Understand core WordPress architecture, directory structures, and the template hierarchy. - Build custom themes from scratch using modern block theme standards and Full Site Editing patterns. - Develop functional plugins utilizing WordPress actions, filters, and hooks. - Create custom post types, taxonomies, and custom database fields. - Work with the WordPress REST API to send and retrieve structured data. - Apply essential security, data validation, sanitization, and performance best practices. You will begin with foundational terminology and environment setup before progressing through step-by-step guides on theme creation, plugin logic, and block integration. Designed for aspiring developers and web designers with basic HTML, CSS, and PHP familiarity, this course requires no prior WordPress development experience. Start reading today to build and customize your own WordPress projects.