Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power with Code 

Hey everyone, in the lesson that starts at 1:54:44 I want to let you know of a few changes that have happened since this video was uploaded. In the video, when you visit the GitHub repo I reference, there is no longer a folder called "js" - it is now called "src" instead. Also, there is no "style.css" file in the root of the repo folder, instead, copy over the entire "build" folder from the repo and then in our functions.php file, our university_files function that loads our CSS and JS files should now look like this instead: function university_files() { wp_enqueue_style('custom-google-fonts', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Condensed:300,300i,400,400i,700,700i|Roboto:100,300,400,400i,700,700i'); wp_enqueue_style('font-awesome', '//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css'); wp_enqueue_script('googleMap', '//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=yourkeygoeshere', NULL, '1.0', true); wp_enqueue_script('main-university-js', get_theme_file_uri('/build/index.js'), array('jquery'), '1.0', true); wp_enqueue_style('our-main-styles-vendor', get_theme_file_uri('/build/index.css')); wp_enqueue_style('our-main-styles', get_theme_file_uri('/build/style-index.css')); wp_localize_script('main-university-js', 'universityData', array( 'root_url' => get_site_url(), 'nonce' => wp_create_nonce('wp_rest') )); } Thanks! Brad

Timestamps: 0:0:14 Quick Overview 0:2:06 Detailed Overview 0:12:05 Installing WordPress Locally 0:25:35 First Taste of PHP 0:41:55 Create Theme 0:54:20 Functions 1:09:14 Arrays 1:21:43 The Loop 1:36:10 Header & Footer 1:54:44 Convert HTML/CSS Into Theme 2:14:42 Interior Page Template 2:32:28 Parent / Child Pages 2:49:16 When do we need to echo? 2:58:17 Children Links Menu

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This is literally the best WordPress training ever. It's detailed and paced out perfectly. Thank you and I am going to watch whatever you have left. Nice work and thank you for sharing.

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I'm about halfway through the video, and it's getting better and better. The explanation of how the theme files link to one another is excellent. I may need to view the video again, though, because there's a lot of good information. Thanks!

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Addicted to the way ,when he say hello everyone in the beginning of every chapter.... One of the best course I ever learned.The pace of teaching is so much balanced not too fast or too slow

I have never related to any video tutorial so detailed in explanation and coherence. I deeply appreciate you wealth of experience and the work you put in this video, above all your deep explanatory skill and soothing intonation that gives utter clarity without ambiguity. Thank you, you made coding a lot more easier and fun.

Ok, usually I complain that a course isn't detailed enough ... but, dang ... you take it to the next level of every. single. detail. :) That's ok though, you sound like Will Wheaton ... that makes it easier to go through your courses. Thank you for taking the time to make sure that absolutely everyone is on the same page. You are a great teacher, I wish I would have found someone like you when I was learning PHP, Perl, Python, CSS, HTML, MySQL and all of the other languages I have had to spend countless hours researching a thousand other resources because the instruction was incomplete. You are an asset to every community you invest your time into. I tip my hat to you, sir. Bravo.

This is the best wordpress development video I have ever seen. I understand things that I never understoof before. Thank you for creating this!! :) And a very happy new year to everyone!

This is probably the best intro course I've ever come across and I've been a WordPress developer for about 8 years now.

Thanks for teaching PHP. I don't know about PHP. Now only i am understanding. I am very lucky to following you here. Thank you so much.

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Men this is amazing, I'm an advanced developer but you just have the good words for people who doesn't understand code ! Keep it up, we need more teachers like you !

This tutorial is GOLD! You explained everything so well that it was easy to grasp. I will be sure to check out your other tutorials. Thanks a lot for this one!

You really need to make a PHP course. You taught it so well. Udemy is seriously lacking a quality fundamental php course. The ones available are very poorly made.

i bought this course. All i can say is brad thank you very much for this. learned a lot every single detail.

omg...I cant stop watching, not even pausing the video.. each second is lots of information.. you really rock it Brad. Brilliant and amazing tutor.. Thanks a lot for sharing this video. This created motivation to take up the full course.

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Hi, Brad! Welcome back on RU-vid! Thanks for the course, I'm currently on lecture 42 and should say it's great! Hope to see new videos on your channel, we missed you ;)

Waiting for Javascript and React js Course!!!

This course is so good I ended up purchasing the full course on udemy. Totally worth the investment in my eyes. Thank you for making this very easy to understand for the absolute beginner.

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You are by far the best online coach that I have followed so far. Purchased two of your course in udemy. Wish to see more from you. Really appreciate the guide you have provided in the lessons. Thank you for the efforts. Please do not stop! Please continue!

a newborn baby can learn from this tutorial.

The best tut on Udemy..💜💜 God bless you💗💗

Man, You are the kind of mentor we need for every programming language out there! Great content! Thank you so much for this goldmine!

Absolutely brilliant teaching. You are quite perfect in understanding the needs of those who are not in the know. Take each, and I mean each step and do it slowly and with full understanding of what someone is going through for whom this is all completely or partly new. Without being able to monitor us, this is truly well done!

You had me at cat.

I cannot express enough the immense gratitude I have for making this tutorial available and, because I would love to get the full gist of the entire package I headed on to udemy to make a purchase but, I made a startling discovery. I am practicing this course on Wordpress 5.4 and found that the page templates are not the same. Even though the functions are still working but the ( page.php, single.php ) do not correspond to the files in the default theme twenty-twenty. As a result, I am not getting the same navigation results as the video shows ( or, as in an earlier wordpress version ). Could you please highlight the code differences that would make this applicable to the latest wordpress version 5.4? I love your style of teaching a lot. Thank you. Edit: I have found the problem. It has to do with an apache configuration on my Ubuntu laptop that was not enabled previously. It's now working fine. Thanks

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When I used wp_enqueue_style('wharever', get_stylesheet_uri()) the work at first time, but when I try to change style.css they just maintain the first version os style.css, that means, style.css starts with body color orange but don't change to green, can you help please? PS.: in wp_enqueue_style I change the version parameters and works, but this just stuck each version I put with the color I put at first.

Hi, I am having problems at the 2 hour section. WP is not responding to my style.css after i copy the content's from the downloaded file to mine. No theme is changing so the webpage looks exactly the same with or without the style.css file. Can i please get some help.

wow your voice is so soothing it's like I can study for hours and will not get bored and what an amazing style of teaching

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I like the work you have put into your channel! You have awesome content! But don't you think WordPress is about to change in a big way, their core language changing to "react" with the new "coming soon update" of version 5.0 "Gutenberg editor" in about 4-6 months? WorPress will be completely different. Check it out @WordPress.tv

Brad, thank you for putting this video up. Based on this I went ahead and purchased the full course. You are a great teacher. Keep up the good work!

That’s exactly what I needed: nice pace and practical application. Even php makes sense now. A full version is totally worse it. Thanks!

The best Practical video training i have ever seen. would love to get the remaining 6 hours videos.

This video is a treasure, i wished i have seen this 2 years ago. Thank you very much for your patience in putting this up and not taking this video down, I am now a designer / developer but i have tons of thing that I need to learn from you and other professional developers.

Please continue to teach us, I'm fresh graduate and new in this field, I accidentally click your video the one you teaching creating webpage from scratch I really enjoy and I learn a lot from you its make me more easier to understand. Thank you and God bless you ❤️

Thank you for taking the time to teach us about WordPress. The pace and explanation awesome. Great!

Ok let me say this. This is the best tutorial i have ever watched in my life. everything is on point. Every question i had you explained it right away. This is pure gold!!!

Wow, again, one of the best tutorials I've found on RU-vid! You are a great teacher! You truly understand what it is like to be sitting there trying to learn this stuff for the first time. You always paused at the right moments to take a time out and explain a concept most viewers are likely unfamiliar with such as "associative arrays". This tutorial, plus the MAMP install tutorial has me searching for more of your tutorials! I'm currently attending BYU-I online for Front-end Web Development and I can't find any tutorials more succinct than yours! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

Brad, thank you so much for this. I went in and bought the full course. This is amazing material.

I just watched the first 4 minutes and I bought the course. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Dude

You are the best instructor i have ever seen, your style of teaching is so great and well organised.

Amazing lessons. Thanks a bunch! I have a few wordpress websites myself, but this video has opened me to a new world of wordpress development instead of using ready-made themes and plugins.

This is a great find! I’m going to get the course this week! Excited to take this next step in my developer course.

Thank you sir, I never have seen such a clear and organized tutorials. You are really a great teacher

What a beautiful tutorial, I appreciate people in this world like yourself; we need more people like you.

You are by far the best teacher I have ever seen. Just bought the course.

I have been watching you Udemy Course. I would say, you are so good at explaining things. Very easy and clean. You are one of the best instructors.

Been wanting to learn this for some time and found you. Now I feel that I may actually accomplish this. Your teaching method is awesome and encourages me to continue on. Thank you and keep it up!

I was researching how to download wordpress to my pc when I discovered your video. I have to say I love how thorough, slowly and clearly you go over everything! Like, I really appreciate you! Taking online development classes wasn't even on my agenda right now, just lingering somewhere in the back of my mind haunting me like a nightmare. But I love your teaching style so much, I just might check you out on Udemy and take the whole course! :) Thank you for sharing!!

I wonder if Brad had ACTUALLY trained as school teacher because he takes the secondary school teaching approach where everything is explained as opposed to University lectures. Dude you make everything clear and the metaphors are especially helpful. You really stand out among Web Tutors because you have a deliberate style and your lessons show planning and are methodical.

You have a distinct talent for teaching. Amazing course. I'm sold.

You're a wonderful teacher. As you explain in great detail what you're doing; you're saving people like me who don't even know where to begin with WordPress development. I combed the vast internet regarding this subject matter for weeks and usually end up in a dead-end (confused and demoralized). Your teaching however makes what I have learnt relevant (I can now have context to things I learnt from others which didn't make sense before). You are an excellent 'foundational' teacher (meaning everybody should come to you first before evolving and learning from other sources). I cannot thank you enough; I don't feel lost anymore. You have my permission to use my comment as feedback for your course.

I want to attend this university! I got to 1:50, opened the university-static-master, and must have spent 15 minutes just going over the page. Agree wholeheartedly with all the positive comments below. Thank you so much... P.S. You also taught me JSON :) (and AJAX, and REST). If I lived in your town, I'd buy you coffee every Monday morning...

This is a lot to digest, I went through the PHP course from net ninja where you build a website from scratch using PHP and MySQL and I didn't find it as nearly as confusing as WordPress alone! I can't even imagine what the rest of this course will be like!

A great teacher I've ever seen. It's not just a video about WordPress but I started feeling that PHP is not that difficult how other teachers used to say and teach. ThankYou very much for that great stuff. Blessings Regards: Talha (From Pakistan)

Ron Howard you are an excellent Wordpress Teacher!

I don't know how to describe your amazing teaching skill with friendly metaphores. Thank you,

You seriously have an amazing talent for teaching and your demeanor is so calming. Great job. 👍

Thank you Brad for publishing in RU-vid. Already bought your course though

Thanks, Brad, you have talent of educator with smooth flow and understanding of student mindset. Great work.

Either you have the natural ability of knowing what questions we have or you have put a lot of thought into this. I think you are the only developer who has not lost site of what it's like NOT to know. I'll have to check out all. your Udemy courses!