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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