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Development for WordPress

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In this track, you’ll learn WordPress uses PHP and how you can integrate your own code to create custom web applications. WordPress, is one of the quickest and most popular ways to build a dynamic website. Since its debut in 2003, WordPress has become so popular that nearly 75-million websites all around the world are powered by it, which makes up almost 20% of the internet. Also, because it’s an open-source platform, it has millions of themes and plugins available for anyone to use — most of which are completely free and easily customizable for your website.If you have never used WordPress before, want to setup a local development environment or need to learn the basics of programming, check out the suggested prerequisite steps.

An entry-level salary for the technologies covered in this track is about $36,000 / yr on average. Some companies that use these technologies regularly include: eBay, Best Buy, ESPN, Yahoo, Digg, Nokia, Ford, Facebook, NY Times, TechCrunch, MTV News, and Treehouse

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Hours 16
Instructor Zac Gordon
Language English
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An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).

PHP Wordpress Developer $49k

WordPress Website Developer $66k

WordPress Web Developer $75k

Freelance Web design, development and Testing on Wordpress $87k

PHP/WORDPRESS ENGINEER $87k

WordPress Core Engineer $89k

WordPress Product Manager $90k

Wordpress Web Designer Consultant $102k

Wordpress Web Applications Developer Consultant $140k

Courses in this Track

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PHP for WordPress

This course is meant for people who know HTML and CSS (and maybe some JavaScript) but have not begun to study PHP yet. It is not a replacement for studying PHP on its own, but it...

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WordPress Theme Development

WordPress theme development involves using In this course we start with a basic HTML/CSS/JS prototype and walk through all of the steps for converting it into a full WordPress...

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The WordPress Template Hierarchy

In this course we look at each of the files that make up the WordPress theme template hierarchy. This collection of files let you edit or customize any page on a WordPress site....

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WordPress Hooks - Actions and Filters

In this advanced WordPress development course we go over how action and filter hooks work in WordPress. The course includes an in depth look at common hooks in WordPress as well...

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Customizing the WordPress Admin Area

In this course you’ll learn how to customize the WordPress admin in a number of different ways. We walk through customizing the login screen, admin navigation, admin color schemes...

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How to Build a WordPress Plugin

In this project we learn how to build a WordPress plugin. We will start with an overview of what plugins are and how they work. We will then move into best practices for coding in...

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From Treehouse
Hours 16
Instructor Zac Gordon
Language English
Subjects n/a n/a

Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).

PHP Wordpress Developer $49k

WordPress Website Developer $66k

WordPress Web Developer $75k

Freelance Web design, development and Testing on Wordpress $87k

PHP/WORDPRESS ENGINEER $87k

WordPress Core Engineer $89k

WordPress Product Manager $90k

Wordpress Web Designer Consultant $102k

Wordpress Web Applications Developer Consultant $140k

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