Structure Of The Course
- What is WordPress?
- Implementation and Uses
- Website building with WordPress
- Types of websites typically built with WordPress
- blogs
- Corporate Sites
- Forums,
- E-commerce, etc.
- WordPress Site Structure
- Different Layout and Themes for website
Hands-on Exercise – Create an account on WordPress.com
- Pick a Web Host
- Necessities for running WordPress?
- Additional features from Hosting Platforms,
- One Click Installations and their uses
- Manual Installations and their uses in WordPress
- Navigation in WordPress
- Introduction to Dashboard
- Settings and Customizer
- Foundation Setup
- Installation
- Configuration
- Basic setup and complete DIY session
Hands-on Exercise –
- Use a web host or use the url provided by wordpress.com
- Navigate the UI of wordpress
- Use dashboard to configure settings
- customize a page
- install add ons
- Organizing Posts
- Managing drafts
- scheduled posts
- featured posts, etc.,
- Creating a Post
- Options within the post creation page
- using tiny mce wisely
- Inserting and Formatting Text
- Copy as plain text
- Writing html in the post editor
- using markdown
- more about tiny mce
- Inserting Images
- Audio and Video
- Resizing and editing images using featured images, audio/ video, embedding Youtube videos, etc.,
- Managing Content-Using WordPress as a CMS,
- Creating Content
Hands-on Exercise –
- Organize posts
- create a draft
- create a feature post, insert and format text
- modify html in post editor, use markdown, insert image and embed video files of youtube
- create new content on pages
- Listing Links using Link Manager
- Adding Pages, Custom pages like blog archive, category archive, using page templates, etc
- Moderating Comments, Spam filter and Approve/Disapprove Comments
- Managing huge amount of Comments
- Additional Content Types
Hands-on Exercise –
- List Links using Link Manager
- Add Pages, Customize pages like blog archive, Use page templates
- Moderate Comments on a blog, Set spam filter and Approve/Disapprove Comments
- Manage huge amount of Comments
- Users, User creation
- Management, User rights, User roles, etc
- Tools, Controlling Your Blog, Setting management
Hands-on Exercise –
- Create a user on your website
- create roles and user rights
- control accessibility
- control various settings for a blog
- Customizing Appearance
- What is a Theme?
- More details about WordPress Themes
- Finding & Installing Themes
- Installing themes from WordPress.org
- Other reliable resources to get Open Sources Themes
- Installing external themes
- Theme Settings Setting up a theme
- Importing dummy content, etc.
- Widgets, Wise Widgets, Menus, Managing Menu/s in WordPress.
- Customizing Appearance
Hands-on Exercise –
- Customize appearance
- select and use a WordPress theme
- Find & Install a theme from WordPress.org
- Install third party themes
- configure theme Settings
- Import dummy content
- use widgets
- manage menus on website
- What is a Plugin?
- Extending functionality of your WordPress setup
- Finding, Installing and Managing Plugins
- Recent Tweets, Using Twitter Plugin
- Adding a Contact Form
- Contact Form Management
- Adding a Photo Gallery
- Working with Plugins
Hands-on Exercise –
- Find, Install and Manage a free plugin
- use Twitter plugin
- add a contact form, edit and save an existing the contact form
- add a photo gallery
- Comment Spam
- Comment Management Backups
- Backups and Restore, Security and Updates Activity maintain your website
- Manually updating WordPress
- Reference to older version (If required)
Hands-on Exercise –
- Manage spam comments using filters
- perform backup and restore
- Update to new versions of plugins and wordpress releases
- create reference to an older version
