Will I Learn How to Build a WordPress theme or plugin?

This is NOT a theme development or plugin development course. While you will learn a lot of concepts that can be applied to building your own custom theme or plugin, the primary objective of this course is to teach you how to develop and extend WordPress so you are not limited by the features provided by any theme or plugin.

Do I have to use the 'VideoBuff' theme?

It is recommended that you create your own starter theme from the Underscores website. However, you don't have to name your own theme 'VideoBuff'.

Okay but why specifically use a starter theme?

Starter themes are recommended because they contain the barest amount of code necessary for WordPress to function. They contain very little customization which is perfect for this course since the objective is to learn how to develop and implement your very own customizations.

I see your content revolves around movies. Can I use different type of content?

Yes please. Feel free to use other content that you might be interested in like cooking, travelling, sports etc. Remember that the content used isn't terribly important but the functionality behind how the content is manipulated and displayed.

I am not seeing my CSS changes taking effect. What is going on?

You are very likely facing a caching issue. Try disabling caching and clean out your web browsers cache as well.

I have implemented the PHP code but I don't see any changes. What is happening?

Double check your code. Make sure every single dot,semi-colon or bracket appear where they are supposed to appear. A single dot missing can ruin your entire code.