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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Installing WordPress
- Exploring hosting options
- Utilizing a Sandbox Server
- Configuring directory permissions
Navigating the WordPress Interface
- Overview of the Dashboard
- Content administration: Posts, Pages, Tags, Media, and beyond
- Leveraging core settings for your blog
- Exploring additional configuration options
Configuring WordPress
- Selecting optimal settings for your blog
- Moderating comments and mitigating spam
- Managing multiple authors on your blog
- Caching strategies and performance optimizations
- Specifics of WordPress.com
- Distinguishing WordPress.com from WordPress.org
- Complementary differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- Account creation process
- Setting up multiple blogs
- Becoming familiar with the WordPress.com dashboard
- Optimizing settings for WordPress.com
- Selecting the appropriate theme for your blog
- Configuring sidebar widgets
- Determining when to add WordPress.com upgrades
- Structuring blog content effectively
- Differentiating between posts and pages
- Organizing posts using categories
- Linking posts together with tags
- Working with custom post types and taxonomies
- Adding a blogroll of links
- Creating and managing content with WordPress
- Practical experience with the editors
- Detailed hands-on work with the new image editor
- Incorporating media into blogs and posts
Plugins
- Discovering and utilizing plugins
- Methods for finding plugins
- Efficient plugin installation
- Upgrading existing plugins
- Recommended plugin solutions
Themes
- Understanding WordPress theme architecture
- Locating themes and selecting the best fit for your blog
- Installing themes on your blog
- Enabling additional theme features
- Configuring widgets
- Customizing themes to reflect your unique style
- Utilizing theme frameworks and parent-child themes
- Best practices for theme management
- WordPress.com specific considerations
Maintaining WordPress
- Updating and upgrading the WordPress core
- Keeping plugins and themes up to date
- Database maintenance for WordPress users
- Using WP-DBManager
Requirements
Prerequisite: A foundational understanding of operating systems and web browsers.
