WordPress 201 – Advanced WordPress for Business

Class Description
WordPress is the most popular self-hosted open source website software in use today, with good reason! This 2-day course seeks to provide Participants with the most up-to-date, intuitive methods for developing and designing in WordPress. This course will focus on the more advanced functions that have become indispensable to WordPress business usage, workflow, presentability and productivity.

This course covers WordPress development and design concepts above and beyond mere version features, and provides an essential foundation for continually developing WordPress expertise!

Course Benefits
This course will impart critical knowledge about advanced functionality within WordPress, capable of handling tasks at the business or institutional level! This course will start Participants upon the path of being business-ready users, capable of making WordPress work hard for them, not the other way around.

Through a combination of instructor-led presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, students will deepen their familiarity with WordPress concepts, whilst gaining hands-on skills in developing, evaluating, and optimizing their work for visual appeal and productivity!

Learn the intricacies of the program, as well as receive the wisdom passed from seasoned WordPress experts!
This course has a focus on making Participants work stand out, in both form and function, from the business norm!
Among many other intuitive usage updates, Participants will learn the newest tips and best practices, to have them creating media and mobile content quickly and with finesse!

Suggested Prerequisites
We recommend that you have attended or have equivalent knowledge of topics covers in our WordPress Fundamentals for Professionals. Also a strong understanding of CSS and HTML is recommended.

Course Outline
Our aim is for the students to get the most out of the class, so class material can have a measure of fluidity, but Participants will learn:

CODE OVERVIEW

Downloading
Directory and File Stucture
WordPress Configuration
WP-content User Playground

WORKING WITH WORDPRESS LOCALLY

Benefits of Working Locally
Tools for Component Administration
Configuration Details
Deploying Local changes

TOUR OF THE CORE

Whats in the Core?
Using the Core as a Reference
WordPress Codex and Resources
Don’t Hack the Core!

THE LOOP

Understanding the Loop
Template tags
Customizing the Loop
Global Variables
Working Outside the Loop

DATA MANAGEMENT

Database Schema
Table details
WordPress Database Class
Direct Database manipulation

CUSTOM POST TYPES, CUSTOM TAXONOMIES, AND METADATA

Understanding Data in WordPress
WordPress Taxonomy
Building your own Taxonomy
Metadata

PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT

Plugin Packaging
Plugin Security
Know your hooks: actions and filters
Plugin Settings
WordPress Integration
Creating a Plugin example
Publishing to the Plugin directory

MULTISITE

What is Multisite?
Working in a Network
Coding for Multisite
Multisite Database Schema

CONTENT AGGREGATION

Getting noticed
Simple social networking badges
Collecting external content
Advertising

Other sections covered include:

STATISTICS, SCALABILITY, SECURITY, AND SPAM
WORDPRESS AS A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
WORDPRESS IN THE ENTERPRISE
WORDPRESS DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

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Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. This outline does not guarantee that all the topics listed will be covered in the time allowed. The amount of material covered is based on the skill level of the student audience. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.

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