Mike McAlister has teamed up with WordPress developer and educator Fränk Klein to launch The Ollie Theme Academy, a completely free video course on building WordPress block themes. The course will cover the fundamentals of WordPress full site editing and block theme tools, advance into custom styling and developer features for creating high-quality themes, and equip you with the skills to stay ahead in modern WordPress development.
An Overview of the Course
Mike McAlister stated, “ Education has always been core to the Ollie community…..we make high-quality education a fundamental part of our offering. That’s why we partnered with WordPress dev and educator Fränk Klein to bring you this course.”
The course is structured into 20 detailed modules, starting with setting up your local development environment and introducing essential tools like LocalWP, VS Code, PHPStorm, and debugging settings.
With a thorough understanding of this, to course progresses to full site editing fundamentals, then advances to explaining the Site Editor, the various settings, managing templates and layouts, building block patterns, and much more.
The course is suitable for seasoned WordPress developers as well as for those beginning their journey, as Mike highlighted, “ Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started with block themes, these skills are becoming ESSENTIAL as WordPress continues its evolution.”
The same was voiced by Michael Willman, “This is great, Mike, we definitely need more resources to help people get started with WP. Keep up the good work!”