WordPress opens up opportunities for developers to modify, extend, and experiment beyond its publishing capabilities. These courses will teach you the more technical aspects of working with WordPress, from theme development to building plugins and more.
Let’s build a JavaScript application based on WordPress REST API
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Fetch, filter, and display data
- Update, delete, and create new data records
- Handle errors gracefully
- Leverage the caching and concurrency behaviors of the data layer
WordPress is a powerful content management system with a range of innovative features. In the following courses, you'll get an introduction to WordPress and learn everything you need to know to get going with your website. So whether you're a novice or simply want to know how to set up a new site, we have you covered.
Are you new to WordPress and don’t know where to begin? Then, you’re in the right place!
In this course, you’ll learn about the essential steps to get started with WordPress. We’ll walk you through hosting, domains, and everything in between, so you’re all set for your first time installing WordPress.
This course is right for you if:
- You want to set up a simple website or blog
- You are getting started for the first time with WordPress
- You haven’t decided on a host yet (or don’t know what this is–yet!)
- You haven’t picked a domain name yet (or don’t know what this is either)
Now that you’ve installed WordPress, what’s next?
In this course for beginners, we’ll teach you all the basics of WordPress, so you’re ready to hit the ground running with your first site. You’ll learn:
- The difference between when you should write a post vs. when you should write a page
- WordPress terminology like “slug”, “category” and “tag”
- How to personalize your profile
- How to use images to help search engines and people of all abilities find, list, and use your site
- How to make the most out of WordPress through your dashboard
If you've ever wanted to edit all parts of your site easily, the Site Editor makes that possible. First launched in WordPress 5.9, the Site Editor includes features like templates, template parts, theme blocks, and more. The courses below will teach you all about using the Site Editor and its features to help you build your perfect site.
Do you want to build a site on WordPress, but don’t know how to code? No problem.
Learn how to create beautiful designs without code, thanks to full site editing (FSE)—a set of interconnected features that make WordPress powerful.
We’ll go through:
- The benefits of full site editing when creating a new site
- How to create a customized site design without any coding
Let’s dive into theme blocks! Now that you know about full site editing, you can take advantage of your familiar experience with blocks to customize and build all parts of your site.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- What theme blocks are, along with their benefits
- How to create a personalized site design using theme blocks
Let’s explore how you can use templates and template parts to edit your entire site’s design.
Here’s what you’ll learn by the end of this course:
- Difference between the Site Editor and Template Editor
- The function of templates and template parts
- How to confidently use the Site Editor and Template Editor
- How to create a personalized site design using templates and template parts
WordPress is built and managed by a wide community of individuals from all over the world. These courses will help you find your feet in the project and help you get involved in the mission to democratize publishing.
Translation is a great way to contribute to WordPress if you understand English and another language. This course will guide you through the process of becoming a knowledgeable Polyglots Team contributor.
This Incident Response Team Training Course addresses how WordPress contributors take and respond to code of conduct reports.
There are four modules in the course, which cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the Incident Response Team
- Overview of Processes and Expectations of the Incident Response Team
- Taking Incident Reports
- Responding to Incident Reports
Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face or online events on a regular basis. Anything that brings together 2 or more people to share their WordPress experiences counts — there’s no minimum number of attendees or required format.
This course is required training for anyone wishing to become a WordPress meetup organizer.
WordCamp mentors provide structured support and guidance to new WordCamp organizers. Any previous WordCamp lead organizer can apply to become a WordCamp mentor.
This course is required training for everyone who wishes to become a mentor.
Some disagreements come from misunderstandings, while others come from unpleasant mistakes. No matter how it happens, it is never pleasant.
This course will help you to effectively navigate these types of conflicts when working in an open-source community like WordPress.
Because the WordPress community is global, it’s important to remember that everyone has different circumstances, knowledge, and levels of experience. As a general rule, all written communication should be clear and friendly, with a tone that’s on the positive side of neutral.
This course is for all contributors, especially those who are publishing posts, facilitating meetings, or otherwise writing publicly on behalf of the WordPress project.
WordPress community teams meet regularly to connect in real time. Teams should feel free to find what works for them, but there are guidelines to how these meetings should take place that are true for all teams.
This course looks at the different type of meetings that take place across the WordPress open-source project and how they should be conducted. It is useful training for anyone facilitating or engaging in contributor meetings.
WordPress is open-source software. This has many implications and affects everything about how the software is built and the community is managed.
This course will look at broad open-source principles and how they apply to WordPress – these are essential principles for any new or seasoned contributor to understand.
Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. You can find out more about the deputy program here.
This course is required training for anyone wanting to join the Deputy program. It is also useful for anyone wanting to know more about how the Community Team works.
WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences that focus on everything WordPress. Each WordCamp is different, reflecting the local WordPress community it represents, but usually a wide range of people from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.
This course is required training for all new WordCamp lead organizers, as well as being useful for anyone wanting to know more about how WordCamps work.
WordPress is built, maintained, and supported in a highly open and collaborative environment. This open collaboration can make leaders think that absolute consensus is required to make any decisions. Consensus is a valuable goal when everyone working toward a decision shares the same resources, information, and values. However, in large organizations sometimes decisions that do not please the majority will have to be made, due to legal requirements, logistical concerns, and other factors.
This course will help you learn how decisions are made in the WordPress project and empower you to get involved in decision-making discussions in any contributor team.