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Courses

FREE
Essential WordPress Plugins
Discover the best WordPress plugins to use for backup, security, caching, and SEO. Learn how to install and configure key WordPress plugins in this free...
Rachel McCollin
20 Feb 2020
Code
1.6 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
28 Oct 2019
Code
41 minutes
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
30 Sep 2019
Code
44 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
27 Sep 2019
Code
1.3 hours
Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages
In WordPress, all your content is organized into posts and pages. If you want to use WordPress to the fullest and create a well-organized site, you'll need...
Rachel McCollin
27 Sep 2019
Code
43 minutes
Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development
Part of the reason for the success of WordPress is how easy it is to customize with themes and plugins. There are a huge number of plugins available in the...
Rachel McCollin
17 Sep 2019
Code
1.3 hours
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
12 Sep 2019
Code
39 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
3 Sep 2019
Code
1.2 hours
Custom Post Types and Taxonomies: WordPress Content Architecture
WordPress uses more than just posts and pages to organize content. In fact, if you're not using custom post types and taxonomies, you haven't yet unlocked...
Rachel McCollin
30 Jul 2019
Code
1.1 hours
Make Your Theme's Design Customizable With the WordPress Customizer
The WordPress Customizer is a great way to tweak the look of a WordPress site. It's especially great for end users of your themes. They can see their changes...
Rachel McCollin
17 Jul 2019
Code
1.3 hours
Complete Guide to WordPress Multisite
WordPress Multisite makes it easier and more secure to host a number of WordPress sites on the same server. With Multisite, you only need a single install of...
Rachel McCollin
29 Apr 2019
Code
1 hour
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
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
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
FREE
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
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
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 Does WordPress Work?
WordPress is a content management system that makes it easy to manage your website without writing code. Find out exactly how it works in this post.
Rachel McCollin
17 Feb 2020
Web Design
What Makes WordPress a Great Choice for Creating Websites?
Considering using WordPress for your website? Find out what WordPress is and what benefits it offers.
Rachel McCollin
7 Feb 2020
Web Design
What Is a WordPress Plugin?
WordPress plugins will add extra functionality to your site, from making it more secure to letting your sell via an online store. Find out what WordPress...
Rachel McCollin
31 Jan 2020
Web Design
How to Install WordPress
So you want a WordPress site? Learn how to install WordPress using an auto-installer or the famous five-minute manual installation.
Rachel McCollin
22 Jan 2020
Web Design
WordPress Sliders: When to Use Them and Tips for Good UX
Find out how to add an effective image slider to your WordPress site without compromising user experience.
Rachel McCollin
22 Nov 2019
Code
Add a Calendar to Your Company Intranet With a WordPress Plugin
A company intranet built on WordPress is a great place to share calendar events. Here's how to do it with the EventON plugin.
Rachel McCollin
26 Oct 2019
Code
How to Add a Booking Calendar to WordPress With a Plugin
If you run a business that takes bookings or appointments, adding a booking calendar plugin to your WordPress website will win you more business. Here's how...
Rachel McCollin
24 Oct 2019
Code
Create a Blog for Each Category or Department in Your WooCommerce Store
If your store has blog posts that relate to each department (or product category), you'll want to display those on your category archive pages. Here's how.
Rachel McCollin
26 Jul 2019
Code
Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
In this post, you'll learn how to install a plugin on your WordPress site—whether a free one you get from the plugin directory or a premium one you've...
Rachel McCollin
23 Jul 2019
Code
Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store
Learn how the WooCommerce API works so you can customize your store or write WooCommerce plugins.
Rachel McCollin
4 Jul 2019
Code
Creating WordPress Forms That Get Filled In
The forms on your site are useless unless people actually complete them. Find out how to create great forms that encourage people to click submit.
Rachel McCollin
26 Jun 2019
Code
How to Link Your WordPress Site With Your Mailchimp Mailing List and Get More Signups
Learn how to gather newsletter signups in your WordPress site and send them to Mailchimp automatically.
Rachel McCollin
20 Jun 2019
Code