Become a WordPress Developer: Unlocking Power With Code (Udemy.com)

Had a rocky start setting up the WordPress dev environment. But once the dev environment was set up, I was off to the races and making great progress! The instructions are clear and well-paced and I'm really learning a lot. Overall, excellent course!

One of the best course about WordPress development ever! If you want to move past basic page builders and actually learn how to code custom websites, this course completely transforms how you view development by teaching you the "why" behind the code, not just the "how." Had real fun watching this course. Much love, Brad!

First of all, I want to say thank you for the quality of the content in Brad's course—it is truly excellent. You can learn a lot about WordPress development. I must point out that it can be a bit hard to keep up, at least for me since my native language is Spanish. Watching what Brad does while reading the subtitles, and then replicating his code in my editor and testing it on the site, is quite a challenge. The only 'negative' thing about the course is that it uses jQuery a lot, but luckily I already have a background in JavaScript, so I managed to do all the work using Vanilla JS instead. Long story short, I highly recommend Brad's course. You can learn so much!

This course was a game-changer for me. I had doubts about switching to WordPress as CMS for my very customized website as other tutorials tend to focus on the blocks/no-code aspect of WordPress--too restrictive for my needs. Being able to learn WordPress coding and build a theme from scratch with complete control made it not only possible, but also the best choice for CMS. Brad's style of teaching is friendly, easy to understand, encouraging and thorough. He does a great job of anticipating questions and difficulties and providing explanations and solutions ahead of time. Courses and lessons are well designed, with one concept building upon another, and plenty of repetition (hello again, isset) to help absorb new ideas. I'm not a programmer, but found myself getting better & better at understanding logic, researching solutions and thinking in WP/PHP code. My only complaint is the section dealing with node.js & JSON, where I hit an iceberg due to problems getting @wordpress/scripts to install properly (it kept installing as an empty directory). The file "package.json" is outdated, and updates suggested by other students didn't work for me. While it's impossible to keep all of this content up to date, periodically updating "package.json" or including instructions on how to do it ourselves would spare less experienced students much frustration. Judging by comments, others ran into the same trouble and a few dropped out at that point. A pity, since the rest of the course is so worthwhile. I've signed up for another of Brad's offerings. He's an excellent teacher. Thanks so much!

This course is an excellent walk-thru of how best to build various web components and structure a website the WordPress way. It's an excellent starting point for anyone with a desire to learn the ins-and-outs of PHP WordPress development.

This has been the first WordPress development course that has even opened my eyes to great capabilities of WordPress. I've been building sites for 6yrs but a lot just got clearer on how to build custom wp websites without relying on much plugins and premade themes

This is starting to feel somewhat dated at this point... it still is getting me over the line so far but there are newer concepts that are missing. this was originally recorded in 2017 it is not 2026 and WordPress has moved along somewhat. Some parts were updated in 2021 (so far anyway) so not irrelevant but in 2026 you maybe missing some newer ideas. Also, I would have liked to see CPT's covered. I get that plugins do have us covered here but i do find writing them not over convoluted and would have been a worthwhile addition.... I will update as i go further along.

Was probably a great course back in its days. Very detailed, thorough and good pacing. There are some efforts to patch up the course to new developments in wp/php, but the course really starts showing its age/is falling apart as many of the used resources don't work as shown anymore.

(English translation by Copilot is provided below the Japanese) Bradさん、とても有意義な講義をありがとうございました。 私はコーディングスキルはそれほど高くありません。今回は、WordPressでfunction.phpをちょっと修正したり、javascriptをちょっと足すことができればよいと思ってこの講座を受講しました。 そんな私が、テーマを作ったり、プラグインを作ったりできたのは、Bradさんのおかげです。言葉の壁も、日本語自動翻訳のおかげで乗り切ることができました。きっとあなたがわかりやすい英語で話してくださったからだと思っています。 また機会がありましたら、あなたの講座を受講したいです。 本当にありがとうございました。 -------------------------------------------------- Thank you so much for your wonderful and insightful course, Brad. I'm not very confident in my coding skills, and I initially joined this course just hoping to learn how to make small tweaks to functions.php or add a bit of JavaScript in WordPress. But thanks to your clear explanations and encouraging teaching style, I was able to create my own theme and even build a plugin! Even with the language barrier, I was able to follow along thanks to automatic Japanese subtitles—and I believe your clear and accessible English made a big difference. I would love to take another one of your courses in the future. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart.

Explains very well. Gives you the logic behind every decision and, what I like the most, everything is project-based which helps me stay focused and motivated. Thank you!