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Learn Classic WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap 5 (Udemy.com)

Learn to Advanced WordPress Theme Development from scratch with Bootstrap 5, ACF, & Custom Post Type Complete In-Depth.

Created by: Fatah Gabrial

Last updated August 2025

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What you will learn

  • Build Custom WordPress Themes from Scratch
  • Integrated Bootstrap 5 within WordPress Theme
  • Optimize WordPress Theme for Maximum Speed & Load Time
  • Learn Different Type of Hooks, Filters and Actions
  • Learn to Add Custom Logo for WordPress Themes
  • Build Optimized Search Engine within for WordPress Site
  • Register & Integrate Bootstrap 5 Navigation System
  • Learn to Create Posts, Pages, Custom Page Templates
  • Create Custom Widgets for Your WordPress Theme
  • Learn to Add Advanced Custom Fields for Posts and Pages
  • Learn to Add Custom Post Type for Post and Pages

How it compares

Against the other 102 rated Udemy courses in WordPress on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 34% of them
  • Reviews151#87 of 103 by number of reviews
  • Length8.7 hourslonger than 69% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2025more recently than 69% of them

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Course Description

Hey guys welcome, first of all, I would like to thank you guys for choosing my course “WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap 5 (2023)”. It’s a great pleasure for me to teach this awesome course on how to build WordPress Themes from Scratch.

I have built this course keeping all beginners in mind, which makes this course the most advanced way and the easiest way how you can build fast, secure, and reliable WordPress Themes.

The primary focus of this course is to help you understand how WordPress themes work and to help you build any kind of theme you like.

Before you can enroll in this course, you need to have some prior skills in PHP and MySQL, this will help you to easily build themes. You also need some prior skills in HTML5, CSS, CSS3, and some JavaScript and jQuery.

Throughout the course, we will cover how you can build a simple plan first and get a basic and minimal theme setup. The first part of the course covers the basic stuff.

The second part is where the real fun begins, we will learn how we can create and set up a custom theme that works with Bootstrap 5 (the Latest CSS framework).

We will create default pages, front pages, posts, comments, page templates, and much more. We will also see how we can create a custom Bootstrap 5 Menu that will work flawlessly with our theme.

We will get into adding Advanced custom fields to our Page templates, and posts, and we will also earn how we can create custom post types.

With the help of ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), we will learn how we can add custom fields to our custom post types. We will use all the learning resources we can via the official WordPress website and build the most advanced WordPress theme.

The WordPress Theme which we build is going to be the fastest WordPress theme you have ever seen. I have made sure that we do not use any kind of customization plugins like Page builders and stuff, which will slow down our site. Instead, we will build everything from scratch.

Finally, we will run a simple test via the GT Metrix to test out WordPress Theme, to check how fast can our WordPress Theme loads in Real-Time.

I hope you guys would enjoy the course, as much as I have enjoyed building this course for you. If you do have any questions or queries along with the lessons, you can always post them in the Q and A section of the Course.

I will do my best to resolve any issues you face, or any queries you have as soon as possible. So let’s get started. See you in the course.

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Instructor Details

Fatah Gabrial

Hello! I'm Fatah Gabrial, an enthusiastic web development instructor passionate about teaching practical skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP and MySQL. With decades of experience in web design and development, I've built thousands of projects, including custom PHP scripts and WordPress themes used by various companies.

My journey into teaching began during the Covid-19 pandemic when traditional training institutes closed their doors. I transitioned to online platforms like many others, but I sought a more efficient way to share my knowledge. That's when I discovered Udemy, and I was inspired to create courses that could empower learners by teaching once and reaching many.

As a self-taught web designer and developer, I believe in a hands-on approach to learning. My teaching philosophy follows the 80/20 rule, where 80% of my courses focus on practical applications, while only 20% covers theory. This method ensures that my students gain the essential skills needed to excel in the ever-evolving world of web development.

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Reviews

4.4

151 ratings on Udemy

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By Stephen Moore on 2/8/2025

I'm learning a ton. I really like the way Fatah is going step by step building the html and now we are getting in to the actual styling o fthe theme. I'm really looking forward to everything coming up.

By Paul C on 6/12/2023

I found this course to be incredibly informative. Kudos to the author for their excellent work. In this course, the author encounters various coding issues and skillfully troubleshoots them, offering practical solutions. This aspect is particularly beneficial for beginners as it provides them with valuable insights into problem-solving techniques. I have given this course a rating of 4.5 because, when discussing WordPress documentation, the author tends to quickly suggest specific links without thoroughly explaining the reasoning behind their choices. Additionally, the PHP code used in the course was not extensively explained. While I understand that this is a beginner-level course, I believe it would be helpful to understand the purpose and rationale behind the code snippets. Nevertheless, overall, the author has done an outstanding job!

By Dominikus Heru S on 4/2/2023

I learned a lot how to apply Bootstrap 5 in WordPress theme development and many other essentials about creating widgets to make the website dynamic where the users can customize the contents. Good course for those who want to learn developing WordPress theme using Bootstrap 5. Like in many other tutorials, you will find challenges (problems) but that is where you really have to put all the necessary knowledge and effort to solve them. Prerequisites: you must be familiar with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 5, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery) and of course WordPress itself. I enjoyed learning in this course. Pros: quite thorough introduction in creating a theme from a scratch, quite thorough in using Bootstrap 5 and CSS, thorough practice in using "inspect" element with Chrome to dissect your website under the hood, great explanations on widgets (love this part!) to make WordPress more powerful as CMS, great use and selected plugins for this project. Cons: From time to time the tutor speaks too fast and "blur" (my case only, I believe), there are things "incompleted" yet on the project such as login and signup pages (I believe the students are supposed to work on them as "homework"). All in all, two thumbs-up!

By K K on 2/17/2023

Doesn't work. Code outdated. Followed his suggestion in Q&A section on how to get the navbar dropdown menu to work - suggestion is useless. Someone asked the same question 25 days ago and he didn't answer. I'm tired of people putting out courses with code that doesn't work and not helping their students.

By Fabio Trupia on 2/6/2023

I have bought and taken many WordPress courses on Udemy, but none were as interesting and rich in practical Contents as this one. I have truly learned a lot in just a few weeks, and this is thanks to Fatah!

By Kathy Moran on 7/8/2022

Great course! Very comprehensive and much ground was covered in an informative and compelling way. The fast pace was just right. I never lost interest and never got bored. Instructor Fatah Gabrial did an excellent job on this one.

By Mahyar Radgoudarzi on 4/1/2022

So far, Master's explanation is completely step-by-step Instead of memorizing and accepting it, you can fully understand the content.

By Emir Hadzimehmedovic on 1/20/2022

Great course, everything as expected. I don't like just one thing and thats, using float instead of flexbox or grid on the start. But css isn't a main point of this course so it's acceptable.

By Alexander Ubokwe on 10/1/2021

This is the best course on WordPress theme development on Udemy. If it's possible to give 10 stars I'd happily give it. Fatah, whether you believe God or not, may He bless you real good.

By Kaspar Thomann on 9/12/2021

Good course. It would be lot of work to permanentely update to actual WP and Bootstrap version, I can imagine. I like this technical way of showing where things are and how to take them. I find it very good to have first a static layout with WP only, then in second block, everything combined with Bootstrap in order to get responsive layout. Thanks for this course, I like it.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100