Wordpress Advanced

• Experience with Wordpress
• Familiarity with programming concepts
• Basic knowledge of CSS

Audience

• Website designers
• Content creators with technical skills
• Business owners with technical skills

With a market share of 60%, WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) of choice for many of the world's most high-profile websites.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will take their WordPress skills to the next level as they learn how to set up, customize and deploy a complex commercial-grade website based on Wordpress. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Wordpress locally and in the cloud (single and multi-site.)
• Build a sophisticated, e-commerce website.
• Customize an existing website.
• Brand a website using custom themes.
• Enable booking and membership functionality.
• Set up and administer different user roles (editors, admins, etc.)
• Create a private or public social network
• Optimize a Wordpress website for SEO (Search Engine Optimization.)
• Backup and restore a Wordpress website.
• Maintain and troubleshoot a live, production Wordpress website.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion
• Lots of exercises and practice
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
• To learn more about Wordpress, please visit: https://wordpress.org/

Introduction

Installing and Configuring Wordpress

Overview of Wordpress Features and Design

Introduction

Overview of Themes

Customizing an Existing Theme

Understanding the PHP Code Behind Wordpress

Creating a Custom Theme from Scratch

Enabling E-commerce on a Website

Managing Events (calendars, bookings, etc.)

Enhancing Content with Types and Views

Setting up Users and Collaborative Workflows

Building a Social Network

Building a Membership Site

Integrating Wordpress with Analytics, Mailing Lists, and other Marketing Tools

Deploying a Website

Optimizing for SEO

Setting up a Multi-site Website

Backing up and Restoring a Website

Maintaining and Troubleshooting a Live Website

Summary and Conclusion