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Courses

The Complete Guide to Migrating WordPress
When you've finished developing a WordPress site on your local computer, you'll need to migrate it to its live server. This can be a frustrating experience...
Rachel McCollin
8 Feb 2019
Code
51 minutes
3 More Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development
One of the great things about WordPress is how easy it is to add new functionality with plugins. In most cases, the functionality you need already exists in...
Rachel McCollin
21 Jan 2019
Code
1.3 hours
WordPress SEO Without Plugins
SEO isn't just about installing a plugin and expecting it will do all of the work. It takes a lot of careful planning and work to make your site...
Rachel McCollin
29 Nov 2018
Code
40 minutes
How to Use Custom Post Types in WordPress
Custom post types allow you to extend WordPress's default post with data that is useful for your own website. For example, if you want to create a portfolio...
Rachel McCollin
23 Nov 2018
Code
39 minutes
Guide to The Loop in WordPress
The Loop is at the core of WordPress's post rendering engine. With The Loop, WordPress formats each post to be displayed on the current page. If you want to...
Rachel McCollin
31 Oct 2018
Code
1.2 hours
Create Custom Queries in WordPress With WP_Query
On every page that your site displays, WordPress runs a query to determine whether to retrieve a static page or generate an archive list. Usually the default...
Rachel McCollin
27 Sep 2018
Code
1 hour
Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg
Gutenberg is a completely new way for people to create content for their WordPress sites. The new Gutenberg editor lets you create "blocks" of text, images,...
Rachel McCollin
30 Jul 2018
Code
37 minutes
3 Practical Projects to Learn to Code WordPress Plugins
Part of the reason for the popularity of WordPress is how customizable it is. With the right themes and plugins, you can make WordPress do just about...
Rachel McCollin
18 Jul 2018
Code
1.2 hours
Coding Advanced WordPress Theme Templates
Template files are at the heart of every WordPress theme. And if you've already gotten started creating WordPress themes, chances are you have some...
Rachel McCollin
9 Jul 2018
Code
44 minutes
First Look at WordPress Gutenberg
Gutenberg is a brand-new editing interface for WordPress. Gutenberg is a major change coming to WordPress 5 this year, and it will affect WordPress plugin...
Rachel McCollin
28 Mar 2018
Code
10 minutes
Learn PHP for WordPress
WordPress makes it easy to create content-rich websites, with powerful admin pages and the easy-to-use Customizer. However, there will come a time when the...
Rachel McCollin
8 Mar 2018
Code
2 hours
Up and Running With WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and the most popular way of bringing eCommerce to WordPress. If you're creating an online...
Rachel McCollin
4 Dec 2017
Code
56 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Adding Hooks to Your Themes
Hooks make it easy to extend and customize themes and plugins. A theme with hooks will give you and other users much more flexibility by letting them add...
Rachel McCollin
14 Nov 2017
Code
14 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Conditional Tags
Conditional tags are a powerful tool with which you can make your themes and plugins behave differently under different conditions. With conditional tags,...
Rachel McCollin
17 Oct 2017
Code
11 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Enqueuing Scripts and Styles
If you want to add a script or stylesheet to your WordPress theme or plugin, you need to be careful to do it right. You can't just add it directly to your...
Rachel McCollin
10 Oct 2017
Code
8 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Attaching Your Functions to Hooks
When you write a function in a plugin or your theme's functions file, how do you get it to run? Hooks, that's how! Hooks let you write clean and...
Rachel McCollin
20 Sep 2017
Code
13 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Write a Function
Being able to write your own functions gives you a lot of flexibility and control as a WordPress developer. It can be tempting to put your function code in...
Rachel McCollin
4 Sep 2017
Code
14 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Your First Plugin
Being able to write your own plugins lets you write code that you can use on all your sites, regardless of the theme. Putting your code in a plugin is...
Rachel McCollin
30 Aug 2017
Code
12 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Navigation Menus
Almost every website needs a way of moving between pages; that's where a navigation menu comes in. A navigation menu lets users find the content that they...
Rachel McCollin
15 Aug 2017
Code
7 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: The Loop
The Loop is at the heart of the way WordPress displays posts or other content. Each post to be displayed is processed and formatted within the Loop. So if...
Rachel McCollin
9 Aug 2017
Code
11 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Widgets
Adding widget areas to your theme lets users add widgets in multiple places, including not just the header and footer but also before and after the content. ...
Rachel McCollin
28 Jul 2017
Code
13 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics - Template Parts
Template parts help you to create more powerful, efficient themes. They also let you reuse your code for common page elements, so you don't have to repeat...
Rachel McCollin
26 Jul 2017
Code
9 minutes
WordPress Coding Basics: Learn PHP
PHP is the language of WordPress. If you want to customize WordPress, for example by coding themes or plugins, PHP is the programming language you'll need to...
Rachel McCollin
12 Jun 2017
Code
8 minutes
Add Social Networking to Your WordPress Site With BuddyPress
In this course, you'll learn how to add social networking to your WordPress site with the BuddyPress plugin. Follow along and you'll find out how to install...
Rachel McCollin
5 Jun 2017
Code
28 minutes
Add MailChimp Signup to Your WordPress Site
MailChimp makes it easy to send email to users of your WordPress site. In this ten-minute Coffee Break Course, Rachel McCollin will show you how easy it is...
Rachel McCollin
19 May 2017
Code
6 minutes
WordPress Basics: Managing Users
One of the great features of WordPress is that your site can have users registered to different roles. You can be a site admin, with unlimited control over...
Rachel McCollin
26 Apr 2017
Code
7 minutes
Create an Archive Page With Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
Most themes will display the all the most recent posts on your archive pages, but sometimes you want to structure things a bit differently. In that case,...
Rachel McCollin
9 Mar 2017
Code
13 minutes
Registering Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress
Custom post types and taxonomies take WordPress beyond a blogging platform and transform it into a Content Management System. Using them lets you add fields...
Rachel McCollin
6 Feb 2017
Code
11 minutes
Create a Custom Front Page With a WordPress Theme Template
WordPress.org and ThemeForest have hundreds of great custom themes that you can use to create a beautiful site, but sometimes you need to customize the front...
Rachel McCollin
24 Jan 2017
Code
33 minutes
WordPress Basics: Customize Your Front Page With a Template
WordPress themes are a great way to give your site a polished look and feel. There are lots of pre-built themes to choose from on WordPress.org or...
Rachel McCollin
29 Dec 2016
Code
9 minutes
WordPress Basics: Switching to a Self-Hosted Site
WordPress.com makes it really easy to set up your WordPress site, but there are some limitations. For example, you have to pay to set up a custom domain, and...
Rachel McCollin
9 Dec 2016
Code
12 minutes
How to Display Custom Fields in a WordPress Theme
Custom fields let you add extra information to your WordPress posts. They're easy to set up, but unless your theme supports them, they won’t be displayed on...
Rachel McCollin
14 Nov 2016
Code
11 minutes
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme Template File
Understanding the code inside theme template files is an important part of learning how to create your own WordPress themes. With custom templates, you have...
Rachel McCollin
20 Oct 2016
Code
13 minutes
Customize Your WordPress Site With a Child Theme
If you want to tweak or customize a WordPress theme—whether a built-in theme or theme downloaded from elsewhere—a child theme is the way to go. Otherwise, if...
Rachel McCollin
10 Oct 2016
Code
9 minutes
WordPress Basics: Add Widgets to Your Site
Widgets let you add extra content in specific areas of your WordPress site, such as the sidebar and footer. Widgets make it easy to customize your site with...
Rachel McCollin
26 Sep 2016
Code
10 minutes
WordPress Basics: A Guide to Site Settings
WordPress comes with lots of settings you can use to customize the way your site works. It's important to know what these settings do, so that you can make...
Rachel McCollin
12 Sep 2016
Code
12 minutes
WordPress Basics: Create a Navigation Menu
Navigation menus are key parts of most sites. A good navigation menu will help your visitors find their way around the site and connect to your content. In...
Rachel McCollin
30 Aug 2016
Code
10 minutes
Essential WordPress Plugins
One of the great things about using WordPress is the vibrant plugin ecosystem. There are many thousands of different plugins that promise to improve every...
Rachel McCollin
16 Aug 2016
Code
1.2 hours
How to Make Your Theme WooCommerce Compatible
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and the most popular way of bringing eCommerce to WordPress. If you're authoring a theme for...
Rachel McCollin
19 Jul 2016
Code
8 minutes
WordPress Basics: How to Install and Customize a Theme
One of the great things about WordPress is that it lets you choose from thousands of different themes to customize your site's look and feel. Many of these...
Rachel McCollin
1 Jul 2016
Code
10 minutes
Understanding the WordPress Theme Template Hierarchy
Template files generate the web pages on your WordPress site. Different kinds of pages can have different templates. For example, a page for viewing a single...
Rachel McCollin
24 Jun 2016
Code
13 minutes
Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages
WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating websites. It's simple enough to build a personal blog or small business landing page with no...
Rachel McCollin
19 May 2016
Code
42 minutes
Make Your Code Extensible With Hooks and Functions
WordPress themes and plugins are more flexible, and easier for other developers to add to, if they're built in a way which is extensible. Hooks are a way to...
Rachel McCollin
5 May 2016
Code
27 minutes
Customize the WordPress Admin Pages
When you deliver a WordPress site to a client, you might want to customize the admin pages as well. You could add custom branding, some help text to further...
Rachel McCollin
14 Apr 2016
Code
1.1 hours
Launch a WordPress Site From Development to Live
After you've finished setting up your custom WordPress site, you'll want to deploy it to a production server. It's easy to set up a local development server...
Rachel McCollin
28 Mar 2016
Code
9 minutes
Calypso for WordPress Site Management
Calypso is the new interface for WordPress.com, built from the ground up as a JavaScript single-page application and optimized for a speedy, fluid editing...
Rachel McCollin
14 Mar 2016
Code
11 minutes
Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes
Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of...
Rachel McCollin
15 Feb 2016
Code
1.3 hours
Using Custom Content Types in WordPress
WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use content management system (CMS) out of the box. The default "Page" and "Post" content types are enough for many...
Rachel McCollin
30 Dec 2015
Code
1.6 hours
A Beginner’s Guide to Using WooCommerce
During this course I’ll demonstrate how to create your own online store with WordPress and WooCommerce, the world’s most popular e-commerce platform. You’ll...
Rachel McCollin
21 Oct 2015
Web Design
1.6 hours
Go Further With WooCommerce Themes
WooCommerce provides a lot of power and flexibility for simple storefronts out of the box, but to build truly outstanding sites, we have to dig a little...
Rachel McCollin
2 Sep 2015
Code
1.4 hours
Set Up WordPress Multisite
WordPress Multisite allows you to host multiple WordPress sites from a single WordPress installation and database. Multisite provides an admin interface for...
Rachel McCollin
28 May 2015
Code
1.2 hours
Developing a WooCommerce Theme
Learn how to create a custom theme for a WooCommerce store, making use of the WooCommerce API to ensure that the screens on your store fit with your overall...
Rachel McCollin
12 Mar 2015
Code
1.6 hours

Tutorials

How to Make a Sticky Menu in WordPress
A sticky menu stays at the top of the screen, so that however far the user moves down the page, the menu will still be accessible, making it easier for...
Rachel McCollin
12 Feb 2019
Code
When to Use (and Not Use) a Mega Menu for Navigation
Mega menus can be great for sites with lots of pages or sections for people to navigate, but they're not always the answer to your navigation needs. Find out...
Rachel McCollin
11 Feb 2019
Code
20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement
Add gorgeous, up-to-the-minute video to your site and engage your visitors with these plugins
Rachel McCollin
1 Feb 2019
Code
Navigation Bar Best Practices in WordPress
Learn how to create a navigation menu that enhances UX, reflects well on your brand, and takes mobile and accessibility into account.
Rachel McCollin
23 Jan 2019
Code
Looking Ahead to 2019: WordPress in the Year to Come
2018 has seen some significant changes for WordPress—and a fair amount of controversy. So what does the new year have in store?
Rachel McCollin
21 Dec 2018
Code
Show WordPress Related Posts With Taxonomy and a Custom Post Type
In this post, you'll learn how to show related posts and products for a custom post type in WordPress. Using a custom taxonomy, you'll see how to add a...
Rachel McCollin
20 Dec 2018
Code
Create a New WordPress Site While Keeping Your Old Static Site Running
Learn how to add a new WordPress site to your domain and keep your old static site running while you set it up.
Rachel McCollin
19 Dec 2018
Code
Displaying the Date and Time in the WordPress Loop
Learn the different methods for displaying the date and time in the WordPress loop, and how to troubleshoot loops where dates aren't being displayed.
Rachel McCollin
26 Nov 2018
Code
Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags
Learn how WordPress template tags add CSS to the page that you can then target with styles.
Rachel McCollin
23 Nov 2018
Code
Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin
Learn how to create a WordPress image gallery plugin from child pages. In this first part, you'll learn how to fetch the child pages and output their titles...
Rachel McCollin
31 Oct 2018
Code
How to Create a WordPress Landing Page Template
Learn how to create a WordPress landing page template. You'll create a theme template file for use on your site's landing pages and edit theme files to...
Rachel McCollin
30 Oct 2018
Code
Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin
In this tutorial you'll learn how to use a WordPress plugin called MapSVG to add interactive maps to your site. You can then customize your maps with...
Rachel McCollin
27 Sep 2018
Code