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Brian Lind
Courses Plus Student 1,553 PointsWhat is the best order for Wordpress Theme's, Courses, and Workshops?
I'm sure the answer is going to sort of depend on the user, but for someone new to wordpress and web design, what is the best order to approach all of this content? Below are the tracks, courses, and workshops I've found on Wordpress. Now that I've started and gotten past the basics, I'm having a hard time knowing which courses should naturally follow others. Below are the courses/tracks I think I should be focusing on, I'm wondering if anyone can help me prioritize or organize them (Yes I realize this is slightly OCD of me).
Tracks: [X] Learn Wordpress [ ] Wordpress Development
Courses (Not in Tracks): [X] Wordpress for website owners [ ] Moving from a .com to a .org [ ] Customizing the Admin area [ ] Learning Buddypress [ ] Great wordpress.com sites [ ] How to build an ecommerce site
Workshops: [ ] One Page Wordpress site [ ] Builidng a wordpress theme with Foundation 5
any suggestions on how to order these or anything else I should add to my coursework for mastering wordpress would be appreciated.
Brian
3 Answers
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 PointsPersonally I would expand you course selection here. You said you are new to web design/development and whilst your goal may be wordpress design/development there are a number of things to learn along the way.
I would be doing course such as: How to make a simple website, CSS Basics, Framework Basics, HTML Foundations, Even PHP Foundations and then expanding into the WP dev track. It will benefit you more knowing the elements that you will be working with when doing WP Dev.
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsHi Brian,
Welcome to Treehouse :)
As you say, it all depends on your learning style but if you're new to web design I agree with Jacobus in terms of first tackling HTML and CSS.
Don't feel you're restricted to this but the following should hopefully give you a few ideas:
- The Web Design track will give you the basics so you can build a static website.
- The Front End Web Development track will incorporate interactivity through JavaScript.
- The Learn WordPress track will give you a good understanding of what you can do with WordPress without code.
- The PHP Basics and PHP Functions courses are a great starting point to demo how you can make your websites dynamic. As WordPress uses PHP it's a good idea to know at least the basics for any custom development.
- Finally, when you're happy you understand these I'd move on to WordPress Development.
- As you do more WP development you'll likely need to expand on your PHP knowledge.
As I mentioned, don't feel you have to follow it exactly in this way as it may not work for you or you may prefer to work through specific courses rather than be restricted to tracks but this is an example of how you could tackle it.
On top of the Treehouse forums you can use resources such as Google and Stack Overflow to find any answers you need.
Hope that helps.
-Rich
Brian Lind
Courses Plus Student 1,553 PointsThanks guys,
I have some familiarity with web design and have done a few of these courses. I appreciate the feedback however, and will incorporate these suggestions into developing a curriculum flow for myself!
Brian
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsNo problem :)