Wordpress for Content Management


Course dates:

9th Nov 2009 - 9th Nov 2009
18th Feb 2009 - 18th Feb 2009

Price:

£275


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Wordpress is the ideal platform for creating simple content managed websites and blogs due to it's intuitive and easy to use nature and open source standards. Wordpress is by far the most popular website management software on the web with 6 years of development, countless plugins and themes; it can be tailored to suit almost any website need. The hands-on teaching from OS4Bs trainer will ensure that you leave the course with a full understanding of how to fully integrate a html design into Wordpress and finely tune your website for Search Engine Optimisation, performance and best practices.

You will also be provided with a Wordpress Pack, which includes example and tutorials from the day, recommend web hosts, plugins, SEO tips and further reading and resources. The pack will ensure that you always have reference material when you come to developing Wordpress site in the future.

Recommended for:

People working with building websites in any job role. Anyone with an understanding of HTML and CSS however would like to understand how to use Wordpress for a Content Management System. A font end web designer who would like a simple way of integrating designs into a complete and mature content management solution with little or no php knowledge.

You will learn how to:

Install and setup Wordpress

Integrate HTML and CSS into Wordpress

Learn specific SEO methods that work with Wordpress

Install and use specific plugins to aid with your websites: Performance, SEO, Analytics, Marketing, Scalability

Best practices for HTML, CSS and PHP

Other people who have done this course say:

"Should be more courses like this"

November 2009

"Very good tutor, adapted very readily to our need to make teh course highley relevant.  Thank you - looking forward to trying it all out"

November 2009

Course outline:

Day 1

Lesson

Description

1

I Basics of Wordpress CMS

We will help you strategically understand: Posts, Pages, Comments, WP-Admin, Users, Themes, Plugins, Linkbacks/Pingbacks/Trackbacks, Blogroll, Tags

2

Basics of HTML, CSS and PHP

We'll lead you through some basic HTML, CSS, and PHP so that you understand how Wordpress interprets code.

3

Wordpress Installation checklist

We'll have a look at the mechanics of the installation and lead you through a worked example

4

Converting HTML and CSS to Wordpress

Understand Template Theory, well show you how to Chop the Template Up.

5

Wordpress Template Hierachy

Find out how Wordpress assembles your templates to produce the page

6

Wordpress Tags

Get to grips with how Wordpress uses tags to display your content. Learn to manipulate these and gain control over content.

7

Wordpress Codex

Understand how Wordpress uses Codex in content.

8

Other Page Elements

Understand and control the Sidebar, the Searchbox, Other Sidebar Features, Comments, Custom 404, The Archive Page

9

Innovative Wordpress

Ecommerce, Membership Directory, Gally, Podcast, Job Site

10

Advanced Themes

Learn how to apply cutting edge techniques for Wordpress themes.

11

Further reading and other resources

Gain our insight into what we feel would make the best onward content going forward