Many people ask me which courses they should follow and in what order, so here I propose several itineraries depending on your objective.
Professional and personal goals
The courses that are best for you to do, as well as their order, will depend on each case, and on your objectives. Mainly I find myself with two objective profiles:
- Career goals: Those who want dedicate oneself professionally to being implementers, developers, designers, or professionals from various disciplines who want to make a living offering these services.
- Personal objectives: Those basic who want to improve their skills to be advanced users, to implement this knowledge in their own projectswebsites, and businesses.
In both cases, the courses will help you achieve those objectives, but we are going to see which ones I recommend you do in each case, and in what order.
remember that you can access all of them for only a flat rate of €10/month, and that .
WordPress Implementer
One of the professions that has a professional exit with more demand at present, is that of being WordPress implementer. Remember that in this article you have the three main ones.
The WordPress “implementer” can be a person who has no idea about code, and who has never done programming in his life. No problem.
Nevertheless, you must know how WordPress works, its plugins and its themes. And there it must be very good. It is worth having certain weaknesses in terms of programming, but it should shine in terms of implementation and best practices.
In that case, the basic course route that I recommend is the following:
With these courses you will have a solid base enough to dedicate yourself to being implementers with your own criteria, and have a very solid foundation of what you are good practices.
Once these are done, I recommend you do specialization coursesin which you can see concrete and specific solutions, which although it is true that they are not applicable in all cases, can be very useful for certain clients or specific projects:
- (WordPress multi language)
- (Forms in WordPress)
- (social network)
- (forums)
- (academy or online school)
As you can see, these are specialist courses that it does not make sense to apply to all WordPress projects. (you are not going to implement an Intranet if it is not necessary)Instead, they are meant to improve as an implementer and have more cards to play and possibilities to offer to your clients.
WooCommerce Implementer
Within the world of implementers, there is a segment with special demand, which is that of eCommerce. Specifically using WooCommerce, which is the WordPress plugin that currently already has a 30% market share.
If you want to specialize in it, I recommend the following courses, and in this order. First the basics:
And then those that cover specific needs, such as selling tickets, making hotel reservations, creating memberships or even multi-vendor marketplaces:
Important: It is recommended that these WooCommerce implementer courses be done after of the basic WordPress implementer courses. The WordPress specific ones are not necessary, but the basic ones are.
WordPress Developer
From here we go to a more advanced level. This profile is that of a person who knows more than WordPress. You have knowledge of HTML and CSS, and maybe even PHP and JavaScript. He doesn’t have to be a guru of all of them, but he understands, comprehends and knows them to a greater or less degree.
First of all we must start with the most basic and fundamental: The main web programming languages:
- (PHP)
With these courses we will have the basic fundamentals of Web development programming. And then yes, we can move on to the WordPress specific ones, in which we will use concepts from the previous courses:
Let’s take a look at how I highly recommend Genesis to those who want to dedicate themselves to WordPress development, because it is an excellent framework. , but the grace is that all Genesis child themes work the same way.
Each and every one of them has the same functionalities, action hooks, filter hooks, helpers, methodology, etc. What do I mean by that? Well, you can take any snippet (piece) of code from a child theme and copy it to another child theme, and it would work perfectly.
And ultimately, this makes you much more efficient as a developer. You will see it in the courses.
marketing consultant
But not only development can we live. Another option would be dedicate ourselves professionally to be marketing consultants, or simply to improve online marketing of our project or business. For this we should start with more generic courses, to lay the foundations of marketing:
- (traditional, lifelong)
- (Price strategy)
And once we have mastered the clear fundamentals, we can now move on to see the online marketing courses and their specialties:
As you can see, we go from the most generic to the most detailed, even seeing specific tools to better position in Google. In fact, we could even specialize as Internet advertising managers, with today’s large advertising networks with these two courses:
Indeed, at the moment Google and Facebook take the cake when it comes to advertising networks where to advertise our business. So, whether it is to offer our clients, or for ourselves, knowing these platforms is crucial so as not to invest more, but better.
Community Manager
technology consultant
Working as consultants, sometimes it can even be interesting to offer technological help, to improve processes and software. It is key to know which tool to use for each occasion.
Whether we want to recommend our clients, or if we want to improve our own efficiency and productivity, we can choose to take specialized courses, once we have done the basics:
As we can see, these courses are already more specific, practical and based on specific tools, so we can choose to do only those that we consider appropriate according to our needs. The last three are based on tools focused on productivity with Google tools and on how to manage the day to day 🙂
Musical production
If you want to dedicate yourself to music production or the world of audio, here are several possible paths that can help you for your clients or your projects:
Graphic designer
And finally, in the event that you prefer to focus your specialty more on design, be it web or multimedia, or simply improve the design of your brand or business, you have at your disposal courses more focused on this aspect:
Let’s look at how everything fits together: We are going to need a corporate identity, but then we are going to have to create it, take photos according to it, edit them, and even layout them on our website or promotional material.
All this must be linked and must be coherent, to give a solid image, either for our own projects or for our clients.
Summary and conclusion
The courses that I recommend you to do and the order of them, depend on your personal or professional objectives.
Depending on the path we take, we can choose to improve as implementers, developers, designers, consultants or even earn a living with it.
As always, if you have any questions about your particular case, and the path to take, contact me through the support form at , and I will be happy to answer.
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