Own Your WordPress: From Noob to Knowledgeable

Grow your WordPress expertise with this technical tour of the backend aspects of WordPress. We’ll walk through the ins and outs of WordPress, web hosting, command line and a bit of object oriented programming in one easy-to-understand swoop. Learn about:

  • The have-to-knows of WordPress and web hosting;
  • Introduction to the command line and Object-Oriented Programming; and
  • The basics of how plugins and themes are made

Get ready to shift your status from noob to knowledgeable!

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By Amy Kamala

Hosting Team Rep 2026
Release Coordinator WordPress 7.0

WordPress contributions sponsored by Elementor!

Tech nerd + artist. Full stack jr dev with team leadership, project management, a dash of UIUX and some product development mixed in. MFA from UCLA.

Past contributions:
Release Coordinator WordPress 6.9
Hosting Team Rep 2019-2023
Hosting Team admin since 2018 and still going strong <3
Tech Lead Cohort Contributor WordPress 5.6
WPLA MeetUps organizer 2019-2022 (still an organizer but not currently hosting events)
Facilitated Core meetings and Release Model Working Group 2019-2020
WordCamp LA contributor/organizer 2020
Spoken at and/or helped with contributor day tables at a few camps and meetups including: WCEU, WCUS, WC Las Vegas, WC/WP Santa Clarita, WC/WP LA
Previous sponsors include DreamHost, InMotion Hosting, Kanopi Studios

WordCamp Santa Clarita Online 2020 is over. Check out the next edition!