January 5, 2015 in Treehouse News
New Courses: Swift, Xcode, PHP, Ruby & Objective-C
New Courses: WordPress Customizer API This course covers how to integrate your theme or plugin with the WordPress customizer. We will go over how the customizer works, what native controls WordPress offer and how to setup your own custom settings…
November 24, 2014 in Learn
3 Ways to Better Market Your WordPress Site
Once you have a WordPress site ready for launch, there is a lot you can do to help get it off the ground and then continue to grow. I get asked about marketing plug-ins a lot and here are my…
November 5, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Courses: Ruby, Git, Chrome, HTML, Python & More!
New Courses: HTML Video and Audio Fortunately, we can now create standards-based video and audio players that don’t require the use of plugins, Treehouse teacher, Nick Pettit, shows you how. This course has a pre-requisite of CSS Foundations, How to Make…
October 16, 2014 in Learn
When is WordPress.com the Right Solution?
Personally and professionally I’m a big fan of WordPress.com, the hosted version of WordPress, from the folks at Automattic. With a selection of free and premium themes, a suite of plugins you don’t get with WordPress.org, and a built-in community…
October 9, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: WordPress Theme Development
WordPress theme development involves using HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript to build dynamic WordPress sites. In this course I will start with a basic HTML/CSS/JS prototype and walk through all of the steps for converting it into a full WordPress…
September 30, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Moving to WordPress.org
In this short course I will go over the different things you need to know when transferring a WordPress site from the .com version of WordPress to the .org version. WordPress.com is a great hosted WordPress option that lets you…
September 11, 2014 in Learn
WordPress for Project Managers
In my years working with WordPress I have found that for every WordPress site that gets built there is often a progressive decrease in understanding how WordPress works for project and account managers. This is a natural progression, however, the degree of drop…
August 6, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Getting Started with WordPress
This short, introductory course gives an overview of what WordPress is and how people use it to make and manage websites. I start with an overview of the different ways websites are made and show how content management software, like…
July 24, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Customizing the WordPress Admin Area
In this course I’ll teach you how to customize the WordPress admin area in a number of different ways. We walk through customizing the login screen, admin navigation, admin color schemes and even how to create custom dashboard widgets. With…
June 4, 2014 in Learn
How to Install WordPress in Five Minutes
If you want to publish your own blog then WordPress is one of the best platforms out there. In this video our WordPress teacher, Zac Gordon, walks you through the installation step-by-step on screen. Sign up for our WordPress development…
March 14, 2014 in Learn
Should I Use WordPress to Create a Website?
(Photo by William Hook/Flickr) You can create powerful, polished sites with WordPress without learning a lot of coding. Once you’re comfortable with WordPress, you can do in a week or a weekend what could take you a month or more…
March 13, 2014 in Treehouse News
Learn BuddyPress Online at Treehouse
BuddyPress provides out-of-the box social networking features for WordPress sites. This powerful plug-in lets communities build amazing sites. For example, BuddyPress allows members to easily register with custom profile fields, friend other users, receive a profile page, post status updates…