WordPress is one of the most popular CMS’s in the world powering over 20% of the entire web. If you want web software that can help you create powerful websites with features that allow you to easily manage a site and add content in just about any functionality at the click of a button, then WordPress is for you.
What Will I Learn?
In this WordPress CMS training we’ll learn how to download and install WordPress on your computer to start creating WordPress sites locally.
We will then work on the customization to create a beautiful website!
| Module 1 | Introduction |
| Setting up a Local Server Setting up a MySQL Database Installing WordPress Previewing the Default 2014 Theme Admin Screen and Dashboard Overview Choosing a New Theme Installing a Theme and Changing Permalink Settings Creating Pages and Posts Versus Pages Changing Page Layout and Removing Comments Adding Content to a Sidebar Creating a Navigation Menu Creating a Static Home Page Customizing the Home Page with Widgets Customizing the Footer Installing Plugins Using Plugins and Controlling Widget Visibility Adding Media Customizing a Theme Advanced Customization with CSS and a Child Theme Things to Change Before Publishing a Site | |
| Unit 1 | Installing Wordpress |
| Unit 2 | Wordpress Administration |
| Module 2 | Wordpress settings |
| In this module, we will take a closer look to the Wordpress settings. - General - Writting - Reading - Discussion - Media - Permalink | |
| Unit 1 | Wordpress settings |
| Module 3 | Create content |
| In this module, we will take a close look on how to create content (post and pages) | |
| Unit 1 | Create a post in Wordpress |
| Unit 2 | Create a page in Wordpress |
| Module 4 | Theme customization |
| The basic theme - Anatomy of Theme - Theme file hierarchy - Adding scripts and stylesheets - Using JavaScript libraries - Adding your own scripts - Adding stylesheets - Including additional files - Styling content - Theme functions - Setting up widgets - Enabling menus - Creating navigation menus - Enabling featured images (post thumbnails) - Enabling custom background images The advanced theme - Loop anatomy - Example loop antomy - Display all posts - Search Result - Excluding a category from the home page - Looping through all children of a page - Resetting the query | |
| Unit 1 | Basic Theme customization |
| Unit 2 | Advanced Theme customization |
| Module 5 | Create a theme from scratch |
| It's time to let your imagination express itself and create your own theme | |
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| Module 6 | User management |
| - All Users - Add New User - User Rules | |
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| Module 7 | Work with Plugins |
| In this module, we will see the power of plugins and all the extended functionalities that it can add to our wordpress website. | |
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| Module 8 | Create Wordpress Plugin |
| Did you see how powerful are plugins? Now it's time to create our own! | |
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| Module 9 | Performance optimization |
| Make your wordpress website faster! | |
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| Module 10 | Wordpress SEO |
| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a must to make your website visible by search engine like google. In this module, we will learn the best practices for SEO. | |
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