// a hands-on wordpress course

Stop fighting your theme. Start customizing it.

Twelve hours of project-based lessons on child themes, custom blocks, hooks, and theme.json \u2014 for people who are done relying on page builders and plugins to do it for them.

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12 hrs

on-demand video

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34 K

hands-on lessons

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4.9 K

student rating

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Works with the tools you already run:

Gutenberg

WooCommerce

Elementor

ACF

Divi

92%

Finish rate \u2014 most courses lose people by lesson three. This one doesn\u2019t.

// who this is for

Built for people who are tired of asking a developer to move a button.

You know WordPress well enough to install a plugin and edit a page. What you don\u2019t know is what\u2019s happening under the hood \u2014 child themes, template hierarchy, the loop \u2014 the stuff that turns \u201cediting\u201d into \u201cbuilding.\u201d

By the end, you\u2019ll write your own child theme, register custom blocks, and hook into WordPress\u2019 actions and filters with confidence, instead of duct-taping plugins together and hoping.

// what you'll build, in order

Each module ships on top of the last.

Set up a child theme from scratch

Build custom Gutenberg blocks

Design with theme.json tokens

Write PHP snippets, hooks and filters

Ship a full site editing template

Office hours

Code review

Get unstuck, fast.

// course outcomes

Skills that outlast whatever theme you're using today.

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Child theme architecture

Override any parent theme safely, so updates never wipe out your changes again.

Custom post types and ACF

Model real content \u2014 portfolios, listings, reviews \u2014 instead of stuffing it into pages.

Hooks and filters, for real

Read WordPress core with confidence and know exactly where to tap in your own code.

Performance and caching

Diagnose slow queries and heavy plugins, and ship pages that load in under a second.

Gutenberg

WooCommerce

Hooks

Filters

Elementor

ACF

// how the course works

Watch a short lesson, then build the real thing.

watch

Short, focused lessons

Every video is under 12 minutes and ends with one clear thing to go build.

build

Work in your own site

No sandbox \u2014 you’re customizing a real WordPress install from lesson one.

ship

Get reviewed and certified

Submit your final child theme for review and earn your completion certificate.

// who's teaching

Taught by someone who's shipped the themes, not just read about them.

Dana Whitfield

wordpress developer, 11 years

Dana has built and maintained themes for agencies, nonprofits, and a handful of Fortune 500 marketing sites. She’s taught this course to over 4,000 students who now build instead of guess.

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Themes shipped

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4200 K

Students taught

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11 yrs

In WordPress

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