Set up WordPress correctly, build a custom theme, add WooCommerce, and rank on Google. Powers 43% of the web — learn it properly, from hosting configuration through Core Web Vitals. Text-first, with links to the canonical WordPress developer docs and every reference video worth your time.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on WordPress development and administration you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
Bo builds production web systems and has trained 400+ professionals. This course covers how WordPress actually behaves in real deployments — the settings that matter, the plugins that hold up under load, the SEO mistakes that cost rankings.
Every day includes real PHP snippets, wp-config.php tuning, WP-CLI commands, and theme code you paste and run. You'll have a child theme, a configured plugin stack, and a WooCommerce store before the week is over.
Instead of re-explaining what's already in the WordPress developer handbook, this course links to the definitive docs and the best community articles so you're always reading the source of truth.
Each day is designed to finish in about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. You can do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Choosing hosting, installing WordPress correctly, the wp-config.php settings that actually matter, permalink structure for SEO, the admin overview, and the first-install security checklist every new site needs.
How to choose a theme without locking yourself in. Creating a child theme so you never lose customizations on updates. The WordPress Full Site Editor and block themes vs classic themes. Custom post types and taxonomies for content that isn't posts or pages.
The core plugin stack that every production WordPress site needs: Wordfence for security, WP Rocket for caching, Gravity Forms for forms, UpdraftPlus for backups, and Yoast for SEO. How to audit plugins for performance and security impact.
Setting up WooCommerce correctly from the start. Creating products and categories. Connecting Stripe and PayPal as payment gateways. Configuring shipping zones and rates. Managing orders, refunds, and inventory. The tax setup most tutorials skip.
On-page SEO with Yoast or Rank Math — title tags, meta descriptions, schema markup, XML sitemaps. Achieving Core Web Vitals green scores: LCP, FID/INP, and CLS. Caching strategies, CDN setup with Cloudflare, and image optimization with WebP conversion.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Step-by-step walkthroughs of installing WordPress on shared hosting, VPS, and local dev environments with correct wp-config.php settings from the start.
How to create a child theme, why you always need one before modifying a parent theme, and how the WordPress Full Site Editor changes theme development.
Complete WooCommerce installation walkthrough — products, categories, Stripe payment gateway, shipping zones, taxes, and order management.
Achieving green Core Web Vitals scores on WordPress with WP Rocket, Cloudflare CDN, lazy loading, and WebP image conversion. Practical tuning, not theory.
Setting up Yoast correctly from scratch — title templates, meta descriptions, XML sitemap settings, schema markup, breadcrumbs, and the settings most people miss.
Wordfence configuration, file permission hardening, disabling XML-RPC, login protection, two-factor auth, and the plugin audit process that keeps sites clean.
WordPress is fully open source. The best way to understand how it works is to read the code. These repositories are the canonical implementations of every core concept in this course.
The WordPress core repository. Read wp-includes/class-wp-query.php to understand how WP_Query works, wp-login.php to understand the auth flow, and wp-config-sample.php for every available configuration constant. The definitive reference for everything in Days 1–3.
The WooCommerce core plugin — the most widely deployed e-commerce system on the web. Study the payment gateway abstract class to understand how Stripe and PayPal integrate, and the order lifecycle to understand checkout flow. Essential for Day 4.
The command-line interface for WordPress. Every admin operation is scriptable: install plugins, update themes, manage users, export databases, run cache flushes. Indispensable for automation, server management, and working with WordPress at scale.
Automattic's open-source theme repository — the same team that builds WordPress.com. The best reference for how modern block themes, Full Site Editor templates, and theme.json work in production. Read these before writing your first child theme.
You write code and now a client or employer needs a WordPress site. This course gives you the professional foundation — correct setup, child themes, and plugin selection — so you don't build on sand.
You run or are launching an e-commerce site and want to understand the platform you're depending on — products, payments, shipping, and the performance settings that affect your conversion rate.
You manage content and SEO for a WordPress site and want to understand what Yoast is actually doing, how Core Web Vitals affect your rankings, and which performance improvements are worth prioritizing.
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