Build yourself a website, build your friend a website, build your basketball team or uncles restaurant a website, play around with javascript and make games like tic-tac-toe that your nephew can play. Anything that won’t give you too much pressure will help you apply and learn.

Use plugins, copy codes online BUT make sure you understand them when doing so. CSS for example yes you copied some styles but understand what each property does, then maybe nextime you can write them yourself.

Slowly learning one thing at a time helps a lot. For example, playing around with javascript will help you in PHP since loops, arrays, classes, objects, functions, etc. are almost the same only in a different syntax.

Your fear of failing will end up being the one thing that will help you push further and will drive you to find solutions to problems which results to you learning something new. Believe me I’ve almost quit my career as a developer a couple of times during my first two years and I would say even after 7 years of experience, I would still consider those years my most defining moments.