Basic PHP combined with HTML, CSS & SQL will create a solid full stack web application.  But, sometimes you want more interactivity – or you want the page to update without doing a full refresh of the page.  That’s where JavaScript comes into play. Sometimes, you don’t really plan to use JavaScript, you simply want…

If you attempt to edit a page that is created in Page Builder – you will see this come up: This means that you need to edit it in Page Builder – if you click on the Text Editor tab and attempt to do it the normal way – the layout will get all wonky.…

What’s the first thing you do when you want to create a web site?  Get a domain name?   Create an index.html?  Just start coding?  NO! The first thing you do is plan what you want to do.    Let’s take a look at the high level steps to creating a website. Define Your Website What is…

Once the requirements are squared away or there are none that are so big that you can’t get started – you are going to create a Functional Specification which we will call Func Spec for short. What is that? A blueprint for how the product should look and work Details the features and functionality including…

Note: this section talks about the various types of software development processes – this is mainly aimed at bigger projects/teams. But, it is useful to have some knowledge of this as you start about designing your first project. Feel free to give this lesson a quick read and move on! Learning how to code is…

One of the key features of a robust WordPress site is restricting users to only seeing the content that they are allowed to see and only allowing them to access capabilites which they are allowed to access.  How do you do this?  Through user roles. We covered the default user roles back in Lesson 6:…