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LinkedIn Learning

Become an Advanced WordPress Developer

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

After mastering the concepts covered in the Become a Junior WordPress Developer learning path, get the skills you need to develop advanced websites with WordPress as the back-end solution. With this learning path, you'll develop advanced WordPress development skills, build advanced solutions in traditional themes and plugins, and extend the functionality of WordPress with the REST API.
  • Build advanced WordPress themes.
  • Explore advanced plugin development.
  • Learn how to build web solutions with the WordPress REST API.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: WordPress: Building a Secure Site
-Learn how to launch a WordPress website that is safe and secure. Find out how to address vulnerabilities, create and manage safe user accounts, edit files for security, and more.

Course 2: WordPress: Internationalization
-Take your WordPress site worldwide. Use the built-in internationalization features and functions to make your themes and plugins translation-ready.

Course 3: WordPress: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
-Custom content is what makes WordPress shine. Learn how to create custom post types and taxonomies to extend what you can do with WordPress.

Course 4: WordPress: Advanced Custom Fields
-Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add new fields to posts and pages in WordPress.

Course 5: WordPress: Action and Filter Hooks
-Take the next step in WordPress development. Learn how to work with action and filter hooks and use them to customize the behavior of WordPress core, themes, and plugins.

Course 6: WordPress: Plugin Development
-Learn how to build, extend, and distribute your own WordPress plugins with the WordPress API and PHP.

Course 7: WordPress: REST API
-Use the WordPress REST API to interact remotely with your WordPress site. Learn how to use the API inside and outside of WordPress, modify responses, and more.

Course 8: Building a Headless WordPress App with REST API
-Learn how to build a headless app—a standalone app that uses WordPress as a back end—using OAuth2, JavaScript, and the WordPress REST API.

Courses

Taught by

Allie Nimmons, Carrie Dils, Joe Casabona, Jeff Starr and Morten Rand-Hendriksen

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