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| Building bespoke sites for WordPress |
WordPress offers a powerful & flexible solution for designing a website or blog.This two day WordPress training course will provide you with the skills and best practice approach needed to successfully create and run your own website or blog including advanced theme customisation techniques.
Why have we created this WordPress course?
WordPress, albeit largely an intuitive software to use, can be a bit tricky to customise and people get very lost in the process. We have taught so many people the basics of WordPress in the past only for them to come back later wanting to create their own bespoke theme or need to learn how to configure it on their server, secure the site, change domain names, set debug options, configure plugins etc.
In addition, with the regularity of WordPress updates we found 99% of the tutorials online tend to become out of date pretty quickly. Nothing compares to instructor-led live help and guidance!
In this course you will find a middle ground between Beginner and Intermediate levels; we take you all the way from introduction, installation and configuration to exploring PHP variables, arrays and functions, MySQL, Ajax form validation, building themes,extending wordpress with plugins and much more; Hence it is a 2 day course unlike the many of the 1 day WordPress courses that dominate the market place...best still it's provided to you at just half the normal price! |
| Scheduled Course Dates and Prices |
Duration: 2 Days
Course Price: £300
Special Concessionary Offer: £150
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Thursday 8th to Friday 9th March 2012 |
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| Max 8 spaces. book quickly to avoid dissapointment |
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If you can't come to us we can come to you! All courses are available as individual 1:1 tuition or small groups at your office as well as at our centre. Please click here for more information.
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Who Should Attend |
- Complete WordPress beginners
- People who want to make blogs or websites, but don’t have weeks or months to learn.
- People who want to switch from standard website systems to the WordPress platform.
- People ( i.e small business owners, coaches,trainers and speakers who want more control over their websites/ blogs or want to integrate a blog into their website.
- People or businesses who want an online presence without paying high prices.
- People who want to make websites for their clients.
- People who want to start an online business. |
Prerequisites |
It's required that students are comfortable using a mouse, opening/ saving files and with the general operation of computers.
Experience of programming in any other type of language, i.e.HTML, Java, Javascript, C/C++, Visual Basic, etc is desirable but not essential. |
Performance-Based objectives |
Course Outline
Day 1:
Session One - Introduction
- WordPress overview
- Why WordPress?
- Content management system or blog or both?
- How can WordPress benefit my business?
Session Two – WordPress Installation
- The five minute install
- Configuration
- Connecting to the database
Session Three - A look under the bonnet
- Explore the WordPress Dashboard
- Find your way around
- Widgets and Plugins
- What’s a page? What’s a post?
Session Four – What is WordPress made of?
- PHP – the building blocks of WordPress
- Why use PHP? Who’s using it?
- PHP variables, arrays and functions
- Build some simple scripts
- Anatomy of a WordPress template
Session Five – How is data stored?
- What is MySQL? Why use it?
- How the WordPress database is built
- Administering your WordPress database with phpMyAdmin
- How WordPress communicates with the database
Session Six – Interaction
- Dynamic forms in WordPress
- Create a feedback form
- Validate data
- AJAX form validation
- Send confirmation emails
Session Seven - Managing users on WordPress
- Display a member’s area of a site
- Restricted access and user levels
- Content management
- Add, edit and remove content
- Learn creative ways to display content on your site relevant to categories etc
Session Eight – WordPress and the Mobile Web
- Creating responsive sites for Smart devices
- How does WordPress assist in that process?
- Explore examples and case studies
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Day 2:
Session One - Theming WordPress:
- Available themes
- WordPress Theme Frameworks – how to get the best out of them
- Building our own theme from an HTML template
- Enable powerful features with WP theming functions
- Template files
- Code separation – keep headers, footers, sidebars (i.e presentation) separate from PHP functions (i.e programming logic).
Session Two – Making your site pay; Search Engine Optimisation
- Create a powerful search page template for your WordPress site
- Manipulate results with links and search term highlighting
- Blogging for business
- Integrating social media
- Dynamic content: Evolve our theme around the content – display latest posts, news items and RSS feeds on selected pages and hide content from others
Session Three - Extend WordPress
- Additional functionality with plugins
- Which plugin will work for you?
- eCommerce – best practices to add an online store to your site
Session Four - Protecting your WordPress site
- Website security:
- SSL certification
- Methods to minimise risk to your website
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Course Times |
| Class time is 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 1-2 pm.
We provide you with Tea, Coffee, Biscuits and other refreshments on the house. We also have a fridge and a microwave available for you to store/warm up any food you wish to bring along for your lunch. |
Related Courses |
| We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: PHP & MySQL, PHP & MySQL Advanced and Adobe Dreamweaver Next Step. |
Book Now |
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Book this course now by paying a £50 deposit which secures your place. This is, of course, deducted from the total fees so you would only have to pay the remaining balance when you come for the course. Alternatively, you can book directly by calling 0208 443 2888.
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