August 6, 2024 — Over a year and a half in the making, the new Learn WordPress experience launched at the beginning of August, 2024! After a complete content overhaul and visual remake, the new site guides you through your WordPress learning journey, no matter your level of experience. Whether you’re setting up a new website or just getting started as a WordPress developer, find courses that will take you from the basics to beyond. Courses geared to designers and contributors are on the way, too!

Join Jonathan and Kathryn as they guide you through the new site—and inspire you to start, or continue, your WordPress learning path.

August 6, 2024 — Many hosting options are available for WordPress, but one of the more popular options for developers is using a VPS or virtual private server. VPS services like Digital Ocean, Amazon EC2, and Google Cloud cost a fraction of more traditional managed hosting, with the benefit of controlling your server.

The downside is that you must know your way around server management, including keeping it secure. Fortunately, a wide variety of knowledge is available to guide you through the process.

Over the next couple of live streams, I’ll explain how to set up and manage your own WordPress VPS. We’ll cover the initial server configuration, installing WordPress in both single-site and multi-site installs, different web server software options and configurations, and some security and maintenance best practices.

The first live stream focused on the initial server setup, using the Apache web server to host WordPress. In this stream, we’ll cover installing Nginx instead of Apache.

July 17, 2024 — Once your theme is live on the WordPress.org theme directory, you may need to update it from time to time. This could be to fix bugs, add new features, or generally improve it.

There are two ways to update your theme on WordPress.org, uploading a new zip file, or using Subversion (SVN).

Let’s look at both methods.

July 17, 2024 — When you’ve made sure your theme includes all the required files, passes the theme review guidelines, and you’ve thoroughly tested your theme, you’re ready to submit your theme to the WordPress.org theme directory.

Let’s dive into what this process looks like.

July 17, 2024 — Once you have finished developing your theme, you need to prepare it for submission to the WordPress.org theme repository.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to prepare your theme for submission, including how to test your theme, check and follow the theme review guidelines, and prepare documentation for your theme.

July 17, 2024 — When you submit your theme to the WordPress.org theme directory, there are a set of required theme files that you need to include in your theme.

Let’s look at what these files are, and why they are important.

July 17, 2024 — Once you’ve developed your theme, you’re probably going to look at ways to publish it, so that WordPress users can install and use it.

One of the most popular ways to do this is to submit your theme to the WordPress.org theme directory.

Let’s dive into what the WordPress.org theme directory is, why you might consider publishing your theme there, and learn about the process of submitting your theme to the theme directory.

June 21, 2024 — Many hosting options are available for WordPress, but one of the more popular options for developers is using a VPS or virtual private server. VPS services like Digital Ocean, Amazon EC2, and Google Cloud cost a fraction of more traditional managed hosting, with the benefit of controlling your server.

The downside is that you must know your way around server management, including keeping it secure. Fortunately, a wide variety of knowledge is available to guide you through the process.

Over the next couple of live streams, I’ll explain how to set up and manage your own WordPress VPS. We’ll cover the initial server configuration, installing WordPress in both single-site and multi-site installs, different web server software options and configurations, and some security and maintenance best practices.

The first live stream will focus on the initial server setup, using the Apache web server to host WordPress, as it’s the easiest to get set up and configured.

June 20, 2024 — While WordPress’s built-in debugging options should cover most of your needs, there are a number of plugins that can help you debug your code.

Let’s look at two useful debugging plugins.

June 20, 2024 — When developing in JavaScript, debugging your code at various points can help you see what’s happening.

Let’s examine some ways you can view the state of your JavaScript code.