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WordPress Training

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Course Description

  • Course Overview
  • Overview of WordPress Course

    WordPress is a free open-source blogging tool and content management system. WordPress can be used to create a traditional blogging site; however, it can also be used to create a standard website for business or personal use. This course focuses on creating websites using WordPress. No previous experience is needed. This course is structured in a way to help all students, regardless of their experience, learn WordPress.

    Students will learn how to:

    ▪ Set up a domain and hosting account

    ▪ Set up a MySQL database on their server

    ▪ Install WordPress on the MySQL database

    ▪ Plan their website by choosing color schemes, fonts, layouts, and more

    ▪ Search for themes in WordPress

    ▪ Select, install, and activate a theme

    ▪ Add posts to their website

    ▪ Create website pages

    ▪ Add images, photo galleries, and more

    ▪ Create tags for SEO and categories to organize their posts

    ▪ Use WordPress as a content management system (CMS)

    ▪ Use widgets and plugins

    ▪ Create an ecommerce site

    ▪ Integrate WordPress with social media

    ▪ Customize a WordPress site using PHP, CSS, and HTML

    ▪ And more.

    WHO IS WORDPRESS TRAINING FOR?

    This training is for you if you are interested in creating your own website using WordPress or planning to get a skill to create WordPress website for others. This course also helps business owners to get more control and insight into their WordPress website. This course is designed for complete beginners.

  • Curriculum
  • INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS

    •  A brief history
    • More about WordPress
    •  WordPress Blogs vs. Websites
    • A brief introduction to WordPress themes
    • Getting started with WordPress

    FINDING A HOME FOR YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

    •  Finding a domain
    • Registering a domain
    • Choosing a web hosting package
    • WordPress feature through your host

    INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON YOUR SITE

    • How to install WordPress
    • The MySQL database
    • Uploading your files
    • The install scripts
    • About WordPress Release Cycles
    • Upgrading WordPress

    CONTENT MANAGEMENT USING WORDPRESS

    •  Archiving content
    • The purpose of categories
    •  Naming a category
    •  Creating a new category
    •  About static page parents and children
    •  Permalinks Dressing up links
    • Customizing links
    • Checking Links with Your Server
    • Syndicated content (RSSAbout Feed Readers
    • RSS options
    • RSS and Social Media

    SELECTING THE RIGHT TOOLS

    • Picking a text editor
    • Picking a web browser
    • About cross-browser compatibility
    • An introduction to FTP
    • Setting up for FTP
    •  Using an FTP client
    •  Transferring files
    •  Editing files (FTP)
    •  File Permissions

    IMAGE FORMATS

    • Image types and formats
    • Comparing image formats
    •  About graphic design software programs
    •  Raster based software
    •  Vector based software
    •  Image optimization
    •  Image libraries

    FONTS AND COLORS

    • About Color
    • The color wheels
    • The color models
    • Color schemes
    • Color combinations
    • Creating colors using codes
    • About fonts
    • Web safe fonts
    • Fonts for graphic design
    • Installing fonts on a computer

    DESIGNING YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

    • Choosing a site width
    •  Fixed widths
    • Fluid widths
    • Responsive Layouts
    • Columns
    • Navigation
    • Content display options
    • The Sandbox environment

    THE WORDPRESS DEFAULT LAYOUT

    • About the layout and structure
    •  Customizing the header image
    • Choosing a header image
    • Creating your own header image
    • Custom navigation
    • About widgets
    • Using widgets
    •  Adding widgets to a sidebar or footer
    • The text widget
    • The RSS widget

    THEMES AND TEMPLATES

    • About WordPress themes
    •  PHP and MySQL
    • Defining PHP
    • The template tags
    • Using PHP
    • Managing your database
    • Template files
    • How templates work with
    • WordPress themes
    • Stylesheets
    • About the Main Index and The Loop
    • The different templates
    • Template tags, values, and parameters
    • Using template tags in blog posts
    • Connecting templates
    • Using more than one stylesheet

    MORE ON WIDGETS AND TEMPLATE TAGS

    • Common template tags
    • Calendar
    • List pages
    • Post archives
    • Categories
    • Content types
    • More template tags
    • Adding widget areas
    • Registering widget ideas
    • Adding widget areas to template files
    • Using template files
    • Named templates
    • Template parts
    • Page templates
    • Adding support

    PARENT AND CHILD THEMES

    • Understanding parent and child themes
    • Creating a child theme
    • Loading a parent theme style
    • Customizing the parent theme style
    • Using images in child theme designs
    • Edit theme structure with child themes
    • Overriding parent template files
    • Adding new template files
    • Removing template files
    • Modifying theme functions file
    •  Preparing a parent theme

    CREATING A CUSTOM SITE

    • Getting acquainted with CSS
    • CSS Selectors
    • Classes and IDs
    • CSS properties and values
    • Changing background mage or colors
    • Adding a custom background
    • Changing the background with CSS
    • Positioning your header image using CSS
    • Repeating or scrolling background images
    • Changing theme elements
    • Adding effects
    • Setting font, color, and size
    • An introduction to basic HTML
    • Inserting images
    • Inserting links
    •  Inserting lists

    USING WORDPRESS AS A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    • Creating the front page
    • Creating a static page
    • Using a static page as your front page
    • Making a blog look like a website
    • Creating blank blog pages
    • Assigning the new page as a blog page
    • Creating custom page templates
    • The default page template
    • Comparing templates
    • Using different sidebar and footer templates
    • Custom styles for sticky, category, and tag posts

    USING WORDPRESS PLUGINS

    • Installing plugins using the dashboard
    • Finding plugins
    • Installing and activating plugins
    • Installing plugins manually
    • Ecommerce plugins
    • Photo galleries and portfolios
    • Inserting images onto pages or into posts
    • Creating web forms using plugins
    • About Buddy Press
    • Integrating plugins with social networks