On-Demand Marketplace for Software Developers
If you intend to work with WordPress, then you probably already know how popular the blogging system is. Anyone with basic PHP coding skills can customize their WordPress, but if you’re looking to stand out from the crowd and be able to build themes or plugins from scratch, here are a few resources to help you master WordPress development!
Smashing Magazine is a well-respected web development resource that has a section dedicated to WordPress WordPress technical tips
Tuts+ is a site that provides online courses about programming, and they have several WordPress tutorials PHP courses category dedicated to WordPress development, and the tutorials there are very helpful.
WordPress TV features various video recordings from WordCamp presentations around the world. For those who prefer focusing on video WordPress tutorials as opposed to written text and blog posts, this is the site to go to. WordCamps are locally organized conferences about all-things WordPress and generally feature sessions about how to use WordPress more effectively as well as WordPress plugin and theme development. Lots of informative video tutorials can be found at WordPress TV’s development category
This site is geared towards designers and bloggers and has a section for those who are also aspiring to be WordPress developers, and they regularly post how-to guides, recommend useful plugins, and blog about beautiful themes that will help inspire WordPress theme developers.
WPShout is a blog dedicated to WordPress tutorials and information. They have several articles that will definitely help beginners get started on WordPress development.
Lynda.com is a site that provides video tutorials for learning WordPress PHP tutorials and how to use PHP with MySQL
This site should be a famous one, and it is, as the title implies, it is dedicated to WordPress plugin development. Pippin Williamson has developed a plethora of WordPress plugins, and his site offers expert tutorials on plugin development based on his experience.
ManageWP is a great resource to get hot-tos, tips and tricks, WordPress updates, freebie announcements, and general non-coding related tips, such as how to better market themes and plugins.
Developer Drive is a web development blog that contains tips and tricks for HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and the like. The blog has a WordPress category that contains some helpful tutorials, and since WordPress development also requires CSS knowledge and the like, the articles here should also be pretty useful overall.
Paul is a professional web developer who specializes on WordPress development. His blog consists of free how-to guides on WordPress, PHP, CSS, Javascript, and HTML. There are also various WordPress snippets that will prove quite useful for developers.
Mark is the lead developer for the WordPress platform, and naturally he is extremely well-versed in all things WordPress. Although he doesn't update his blog often, when he does he posts helpful tips and tricks for WordPress development.
This plugin is pretty essential to any aspiring WordPress developers, as it makes life easier when debugging themes or plugins.
WordPress is constantly updated, and some times older functionalities are deprecated and no longer recommended to be used. This nifty little plugin will list out all the functionalities that have been deprecated and sometimes offers alternatives, if available! It also helps log incorrect functionality usage, which should be quite helpful.
Many WordPress theme developers have found this plugin immensely helpful to make sure their theme will pass the WordPress standards before they submit their themes for review.
Don’t let that site name put you off, as Hookr is actually a great resource for developers to find things such as WordPress API and plugin hooks.
Boasting a collection of over 630 WordPress snippets, this site should make WordPress development easier.
WordPress Gear aims to be a community-driven site that provides a list of free WordPress developer tools, such as tools for WordPress unit testing, WordPress frameworks, WordPress debugging tools, and more.