CO-201 : WordPress Essentials
- 12Training hours
- 4Lectures
- 250Egyptian pounds
Learn how to build a complete, professional website
with no need to write a single line of code!
Yes, that is right. It is time to work with the best known content management system there is, "WordPress"
Over this short course you will
learn everything you need in order to build a blog or a fully professional website, unlimited and completely dynamic, with WordPress
The topics this training programme covers
- What is a content management system?
- What is WordPress?
- Web terminology explained (hosting, domain name, control panel and the rest)
- How do you get hold of WordPress?
- Installing and running WordPress
- Publishing posts and adding pages to the site
- Controlling the menus and how they look, the overall design, and every element on the site
- Using page templates
- Adding images, video and other multimedia to your site
- Making changes to posts
- Changing Themes
- Installing new Plugins
- Comments and sharing on the social networks
- Managing users: adding, deleting and editing them
- Securing WordPress sites
- A short workshop building a website with WordPress
What the programme covers
- Introduction
- Welcome
- What's new in WordPress 4.0
- What is WordPress?
- Setting the language of your WordPress installation
- WordPress, WordPress.com, and WordPress.org: What is the difference?
- Installing and running WordPress
- Accessing your WordPress site
- Using the WordPress Dashboard
- Using the WordPress toolbar
- Understanding the difference between posts and pages
- Creating a new post
- Using categories and tags
- Advanced text formatting
- Creating and managing links
- Adding images
- Adding an image gallery
- Using Featured Image
- Adding images from external sources
- Adding media from YouTube and other services through oEmbed
- Comparing and restoring old versions with Revisions
- Publishing posts
- Using the More tag and excerpts
- Defining post formats
- Creating a basic page
- Using page templates
- Organizing page hierarchy
- Navigating the Dashboard index pages
- Using Quick Edit
- Using Bulk Edit
- Understanding how WordPress handles media content
- Selecting and changing themes
- Using the Theme Customizer
- Using a custom header image
- Creating custom menus
- Using widgets
- Changing the front page from a blog view to a static page
- Installing themes from the WordPress Theme Directory
- Installing custom themes
- Making sure your WordPress site is mobile-ready
- Installing plugins
- Creating a contact page
- Adding social media sharing buttons with AddThis
- Learn more about plugins
- Editing your user profile
- Creating a Gravatar profile
- Adding and managing users
- Understanding user levels
- Configuring general settings
- Creating user-friendly permalinks
- Configuring comment settings
- Managing comments
- Understanding how WordPress works
- Back-end management of themes, plugins, and other assets
- Keeping up to date
- Must-have security plugins
- Troubleshooting a site crash
- Exporting and importing content from other sites
- Going further with WordPress: Creating themes and plugins
Meet the trainers on this course
Trainer and web developer
Hamada works as a professional web developer across a number of platforms, PHP and MS ASP.NET among them, and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer for web applications, which he took after his computer science degree. He has spent years building web applications for the commercial market, alongside teaching a long list of training courses in the field.
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Head of the academy, and PHP application developer
Mostafa began his working life five years ago in web design and web programming, in languages such as HTML, CSS and PHP, before moving across into training. He chose to pursue that ambition independently, and founded Seven Dash Training Academy in early 2010. He has taught web programming languages at Seven Dash ever since, and later founded a second company specialising in web design and development, named "Dominato", bringing together commercial experience and teaching skill.
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What else comes with this course
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Sit the course again, free -
Drinks cafeteria -
A room worth sitting in -
Support that continues
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