18 Free Video Courses To Learn WordPress Theme Development From Scratch

This is 3rd article in the WordPress Developer Tools Series by Tahir Taous. We are publishing articles about best tools, Starter themes, frameworks, plugins, browser add-ons, video courses available online to become a powerful WordPress Developer.

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Do you want to become a WordPress developer, want to create powerful websites with WordPress yourself or want to customize WordPress themes, In this series, We are going to share best resources, tutorials, and tools to become a WordPress developer.

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How to become a WordPress Theme Developer

If you want to create and customize WordPress themes, You should learn HTML and CSS.

Recommended Reading: 38 Free video courses to Learn HTML, CSS, PHP, JQuery, JavaScript, Git and More

With the good understanding of HTML and CSS, You can customize styles of different sections of WordPress themes. Chrome Developers tools are one of the best tools available to easily edit web pages.

You also need to learn basics of PHP. WordPress is a PHP based Content Management System. You will have to add PHP tags to your theme files, so WordPress can display content.

For example, to display post title you will have to use following PHP tag in your theme.

<?php the_title(); ?>

There are so many template tags available for WordPress. You can see a list of available Template Tags at WordPress codex.

With HTML and CSS, You can create and style web pages, after creating HTML pages, you can replace static HTML content with WordPress template tags to display dynamic content.

Download WordPress Theme Development Handbook, which reveals free tools and resources to become a WordPress theme developer.

Local Development Environment

To create and test WordPress websites, plugin, and themes, you need an active WordPress installation. You don’t need to buy web hosting or domain name to set a WordPress website. There are many free software available to set up WordPress websites locally.

WordPress theme development courses free
WordPress theme development courses free

XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP and Bitnami WordPress installers are free tools to easily install WordPress locally on your Windows or MAC. You can read this tutorials to learn How To Install WordPress using WAMP Server on your Windows PC.

Local development servers make your development and testing workflow much faster and simpler. You don’t always need an internet connection to test your themes or plugins.

WordPress Theme Development Courses

Here are the list free video courses available online to learn theme development.

  1. YouTube WordPress 101 for Beginner Developers 22 videos by Alessandro Castellani
  2. YouTube Customizing WordPress 15 videos
  3. YouTube WordPress Theme Tutorial 60 videos
  4. YouTube Video Series How to Create WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap A-Z 28 videos by Ezer Sanbe
  5. YouTube Video Series WordPress Theme Development By LearnWebCode 1. 17 videos
  6. YouTube Make a WordPress theme with Bootstrap 3 6 videos by Coder’s Guide
  7. YouTube Create a Premium WordPress Theme 36 videos by Alessandro Castellani
  8. YouTube How to Use WordPress Term Meta 3 videos by Develop With WP
  9. YouTube WordPress Shorts 9 videos by Develop With WP
  10. YouTube WooCommerce Theming 2 videos by Watch and Learn
  11. YouTube Video Series Responsive WordPress Theme Tutorial Series by AwfulMedia 1. 26 videos
  12. YouTube WordPress Custom Query 8 videos by Watch and Learn
  13. YouTube WordPress Custom Post Types And Fields 5 videos by Watch and Learn
  14. YouTube Modern WordPress Development Workflow 3videos by Watch and Learn
  15. YouTube Responsive WordPress Theme Tutorial : The Basics 26 videos by GeekyBrackets
  16. YouTube PSD to WordPress theme 6 videos Aharon Williams
  17. YouTube Theming with WP REST API 6 videos by Watch and Learn
  18. YouTube How to Create WP_CLI Commands 3 videos by Develop With WP
  19. YouTube WordPress Theme Customization API Tutorials 4 videos by GameGrind

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4 responses on “18 Free Video Courses To Learn WordPress Theme Development From Scratch

  1. Renee groskreutz

    This is truly a great list. Also, this is off topic a bit but I love the structure of this blog post. For the longest time, I have been curious about creating a WordPress Theme and now I see how much work goes into it.

  2. Bhasker Raj

    Tahir Taous,
    Your website is an excellent place to learn WordPress, providing the guides and resources for a beginner to experienced professionals to become experienced WordPress user.
    You have covered all the details of how to build webpages using WordPress.
    I have created a blogging website and still working to add more features to this site.
    Going through your website, is very helpful for me.

    Best Wishes

    A. S. Bhasker Raj
    Bangalore
    India
    .

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