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The primary goal of this course is to teach anyone, even a complete beginner, how to become a WordPress guru in a few short hours, without lots of technical jargon. A guarantee that after taking this course you’ll have the knowledge you need to build a responsive, beautiful website with the latest version of WordPress.
This course will guide anyone through every single step from installation to finished website. The course will teach anyone how to install WordPress on their own computer for free, so you don’t have to pay for a domain name or hosting fees while you complete this course.
Once you’ve got WordPress installed on your computer, you will learn how to build and run a successful, beautiful, responsive-design website you can be proud of.
This intermediate WordPress training course takes your site to the next level. You will learn how to thoroughly customise themes, find the right plugin for your needs, understand the different requirements for mobile platforms (smartphones/ tablets) and how to unleash the full power and potential of this CMS platform.
Our hands-on course will teach you WordPress best practice, SEO strategies, security tips and caching techniques. You’ll get started with e-commerce and find out about little-known and useful features of WordPress – and all from the man who helped create it in the first place.
This course is aimed at those who’ve already got to grips with the WordPress CMS. You will need to have some programming know-how, but in-depth expertise isn’t essential.
This advanced course is ideal for those who are already comfortable building WordPress sites but are looking to work in the field professionally – perhaps wanting to make a living building WordPress sites or creating more advanced WordPress sites. It will help those wanting to take control of their current WordPress site and fully understand its capabilities. Marketing and promotional companies looking to take their clients’ sites further will also benefit, as well as those who want to bring their website creation and maintenance in-house.
Course Content
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WordPress for Beginners How to become a WordPress guru in a few short hours.
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Install WordPress on your computer, so you can learn without having to pay hosting or domain fees
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This course will teach anyone to build a functional, beautiful, responsive website with WordPress.
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Navigate around the WordPress dashboard, know what everything does and how to use it.
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Understand the main features of WordPress
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Create pages and posts, and most importantly, know the difference between the two
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Create custom menus and navigation systems that both visitors and search engines will find useful.
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Correctly use post categories and tags and understand why these can cause you problems at the search engines if used incorrectly.
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Know how to configure WordPress for best results
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Understand plugins & themes and how to find/install them
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Protect their WordPress website from hackers and spammers
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Create a static homepage useful for most websites, or a blog like homepage useful for bloggers
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Create a Responsive Website that looks good on any browser
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Intermediate WordPress You may already have a WordPress site or two but you want yours to be better than the rest.
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Recap on the Introduction to WordPress: What is WordPress?
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Recap of the WordPress basics: Posts, pages and plugin
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Settings in-depth: More ways to configure your site
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Advanced posts and pages: Featured images, the kitchen sink, paging and more
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The Image Editor: Make your own thumbnails
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Themes, Widgets and Menus in-depth: Learning the building blocks
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CSS introduction: An overview and some useful tools
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Customising your theme with CSS
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Hosting, plugins and good habits
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Security and caching plugins
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SEO – an overview: The strange art of Search Engine Optimisation
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Anti-spam techniques: Akismet and beyond
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E-commerce – an overview: An intro to selling your stuff
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More useful tools and plugins
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Advanced WordPress A little CSS knowledge is useful. Text editor and a FTP programme
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Create all kinds of commercial websites, using WordPress, to sell to clients
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Sell Website Care and Maintenance Plans to happy clients for recurring revenue
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Build and edit websites within staging and development environments
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Master the inner workings of WordPress, for fixing, troubleshooting, and building websites
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Set up server and hosting environments in the most economical and secure way
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Migrate and transfer WordPress websites from staging to live and vice-versa
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Learn to set up local development environments to play with WordPress websites in private, on your own computer.
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Evaluate and choose hosting for your own websites and client sites
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Free extended hosting trials at 1and1 and Flywheel for performing coursework and hosting your website experiments
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Download and configure free open-source software tools and use online services to build the resources you need to create and manage WordPress websites.
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Master the ins-and-outs of hosting and development environments, including servers, files, and databases that WordPress uses.
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Learn how to get into the WordPress files and database to manually manage installation and troubleshooting for WordPress websites
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Add contact forms, Google Maps embedded in the site, and Google Analytics integrations for tracking visitors and traffic.
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Create a blog-style website, including category and tag navigation systems, and post formats for organizing content
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