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Courses

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 Create WordPress Pages With Hierarchy and Templates
In this video from my course on creating content in WordPress, you’ll learn how to create pages. I’ll also show you how to add them to a page hierarchy for...
Rachel McCollin
30 Aug 2016
Code
WooCommerce Grouped Products and Attributes - Which to Use?
WooCommerce gives you a few options which will help you to add metadata to your products and let readers choose different versions of them. Here's how to...
Rachel McCollin
9 Aug 2016
Code
Create a 'Conversation' Banner With Revolving Text in WordPress: Part 2
In the first part of this two-part series, we created a set of two sliders to display posts form a custom post type. Here we'll style them.
Rachel McCollin
18 Jun 2016
Code
Create a 'Conversation' Banner With Revolving Text in WordPress: Part 1
Sliders are often used for images, but you can use them for text too. Here I'll show you how to create a slider with two blocks of text to create a...
Rachel McCollin
15 Jun 2016
Code
How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
Running multiple loops in WordPress gives you more power over the way your posts are displayed, but querying the database more than once uses resources....
Rachel McCollin
20 Apr 2016
Code
WordPress Actions and Filters: What's the Difference?
It's easy to get confused between action hooks and filter hooks in WordPress: here's a guide to help you use both.
Rachel McCollin
7 Apr 2016
Code
A Quick Guide to the WordPress Customizer Interface
In this short video tutorial from my recent course on writing Customizer-ready WordPress themes, I’ll demonstrate the Customizer interface.
Rachel McCollin
22 Mar 2016
Code
Multisite Enhancements in WordPress 4.4
WordPress 4.4 introduced some nice enhancements for Multisite networks. Here's an overview of them.
Rachel McCollin
18 Mar 2016
Code
How Welcoming are WordCamps to Women?
Tech events tend to be dominated by men, especially when you look at the lineup of speakers. But the WordPress community has worked hard to make WordCamps...
Rachel McCollin
8 Mar 2016
Code
How to Make WooCommerce Product Attributes More Prominent
Product attributes tend to be hidden low down on the product screen in WooCommerce. Learn how to display them higher up, with product tabs and categories.
Rachel McCollin
28 Jan 2016
Code
Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists
WooCommerce gives you the option to display categories and products together on archive pages, but they appear in the same list, which can look messy. Here's...
Rachel McCollin
22 Jan 2016
Code
WooCommerce: Adding the Product Short Description to Archive Pages
When listing WooCommerce products in archive pages, it can be useful to include the short description. Here's how.
Rachel McCollin
21 Jan 2016
Code