Before we look at how to register WordPress custom shortcodes, let’s be clear: If there’s one thing Gutenberg is about to kill, it’s the use of WordPress shortcodes in content creation.

Especially when you’re new to WordPress and theme-making, making sense of WordPress template tags is super important and super valuable. It’s actually one of the things I remember spending lots of time not-quite getting. So today we’re presenting the Up and Running chapter for your enjoyment. I think it’s super relevant, and if you can’t explain in a sentence what get_the_permalink does in a WordPress template, you simply owe it to yourself to read it.

As a part of WordPress Security with Confidence, I built a feature that I felt a lot of people were hungry for. It’s a comparison table of WordPress security plugins. It starts to take people along the journey from “security is a serious topic that I have no idea how to handle” and toward “security is a set of problems I can solve in a variety of ways.” That transition is my motivation for the course, and it’s also the motivation for something I just made free: WPSecurityCompared.com. Which, well, makes it easy to compare WordPress security plugins.

We (here at WPShout) are thinking hard about making a complete paid course that gets anyone interested in WordPress development totally up to speed on PHP. And so far on the site, we’ve covered to the most important PHP data types, objects and arrays.

Earlier this week we announced the upcoming Third Edition launch of our critically acclaimed “learn WordPress development” course Up and Running. This new Edition adds new Gutenberg content, and updates the course for 2018.

Our critically acclaimed “learn WordPress development” course Up and Running has been updated for 2018, and this update is launching next week alongside a lot of really excellent launch bonuses.

WPShout has helped thousands of people learn WordPress development since 2009. We’ve published hundreds of tutorials, created a premium WordPress development course, and love teaching what we learn in our day jobs as WordPress developers to would-be WordPress developers like you, who are just getting started, need a bit of extra guidance, or need a refresher.

This article outlines the key topics I’ve needed clarity on to work as a freelance WordPress developer.

This article introduces one of the most important topics in WordPress development: WordPress hooks, including action hooks and filter hooks.