Overview
Audience: This course is general and can be attended by anyone. Most precisely, this course is attended by people who are interested in developing a website without any coding /programming skills.
Requirements
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of operating system and browsers.
Course Outline
Installing WordPress
- Hosting options
- Sandbox Server
- Setting Your Directory Permissions
Getting Around WordPress
- Dashboard
- Posts, Pages, Tags, Media, and More: Content Administration
- Tapping into the Core Settings for Your Blog
- Other Settings
Configuring WordPress
- Choosing the Right Settings for Your Blog
- Moderating Comments and Comment Spam
- Managing Additional Authors on Your Blog
- Caching and Other Tune-Ups
- WordPress.com Notes
- How WordPress.com Is Different From WordPress.org
- WordPress.com and WordPress.org: Complementary Differences
- Creating Your Account
- Setting Up Different Blogs
- Becoming Familiar with the WordPress.com Dashboard
- Getting Your Settings Right for WordPress.com
- Picking the Right Theme for Your Blog
- Configuring Sidebar Widgets on Your Blog
- When to Add WordPress.com Upgrades to Your Blog
- Organizing the Content on Your Blog
- Understanding Posts Versus Pages
- Organize Your Posts with Categories
- Connect Your Posts Together with Tags
- Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
- Adding a Blogroll of Links to Your Blog
- Creating and Managing Content with WordPress
- Hands On with the Editors
- Hands on with the New Image Editor in Detail
- Adding Media to Your Blog and Posts
Plugins
- Finding and Using Plugins
- Finding Plugins
- Installing Plugins Quickly and Easily
- Upgrading Plugins
- Recommended Plugins
Themes
- Understanding the Structure of WordPress Themes
- Finding Themes and Choosing the Right One for Your Blog
- Installing Themes on Your Blog
- Configuring Extra Features on Themes
- Configuring Widgets
- Editing a Themes to Make it Your Own
- Using Theme Frameworks and Parent-Child Themes
- Theme Best Practices
- WordPress.com Notes
Maintaining WordPress
- Updating and Upgrading WordPress
- Updating Plugins and Themes
- Database Maintenance for WordPress Users
- WP-DBManager