Wordpress academy - The complete guide to website creation

Want your own website, blog, or online store but have no idea where to start? Or are you already working with WordPress and want to finally understand what's happening under the hood — templates, hooks, the database, the API? WordPress Academy walks you through both paths, in one clearly structured handbook.

The book moves through 43 chapters across three progressive parts. Part I is for complete beginners — installation, the admin interface, content and media management, menus, themes, your first plugins, and an introduction to page builders. Part II covers intermediate customization and operations: HTML/CSS/PHP basics, the template hierarchy, custom fields and post types, SEO, performance, security, multilingual sites, and an introduction to WooCommerce. Part III takes you into developer territory: custom theme and plugin development, the hook system, the REST API, headless WordPress, Multisite, a Git-based workflow — all the way to planning and building a complete website as a capstone project.

Every chapter follows the same predictable structure: a theoretical introduction, step-by-step guides, diagrams and tables, a practical exercise with a detailed solution, and review questions for self-checking. The book is rounded out with 12 custom-made illustrative diagrams, a glossary, and an index — built to be a real reference you'll return to for years, not just read once.

No prior programming experience is required — only from Part III onward will you need HTML/CSS/PHP basics, which the book itself teaches along the way.

What you'll learn:

· Installing WordPress both locally and on a live server

· Managing content, media, and users in the admin interface

· Working with themes, the Customizer, and visual page builders (Gutenberg, Elementor)

· Building custom fields, post types, and taxonomies

· SEO, performance optimization, and secure operations

· Custom theme and plugin development, the hook system, and the REST API

· Headless WordPress, WooCommerce, and Multisite architectures

· Planning and building a complete website from scratch

Who it's for: beginners building their first website; freelancers and marketers building sites for clients; and developers who want to understand WordPress's deeper, code-level layers.