WordPress Fundamentals Training

WordPress is best known as a powerful, open-source blogging tool, but its simple, powerful set of web content management features, plug-ins and templates have made WordPress the most popular web publishing platform, with over 25 million users. AcademyX's WordPress Fundamentals training will provide you with the practical experience necessary to design a website or blog which is both highly-usable and visually impactful. You will leave this training prepared to begin designing a site with WordPress and power your site with the extensive array of themes, widgets of plug-ins developed by the global community of WordPress users and developers. Your AcademyX instructor has experience with the technical aspects of designing a site with WordPress, as well as the perspective required to develop sites which communicate clearly and compel your target audience to take action.

Getting Started with WordPress

Configure WordPress around your site's objectives.
Master key techniques to manage web content effectively.
Create and manage user accounts.
Back up critical data and files.

Adding and Organizing Site Content

Design a logical tagging scheme which will grow with your site.
Create and assign custom fields to posts and other content.
Manage large numbers of external links with a minimum of broken links.

Growing a Community Around Your WordPress Site

Develop a strategy to moderate comments ... before problems arise.
Moderate, manage and disable comments with minimal effort.
Draw on an arsenal of utilities and techniques to win the war on spam.

Understanding and Using WordPress's Media Management Capabilities

Learn how to get the most from the Media Library.
Upload and manage audio and video files.
Integrate media seamlessly into posts and web pages.

Customizing WordPress

Find and upload the right WordPress theme for your objectives.
Tailor the look and feel of your WordPress site with the Theme Editor and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Build themes and templates from scratch.
Add Widgets and Plug-Ins into your site.

Prerequisites:

Ability to write HTML code.
Some familiarity with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

WordPress Fundamentals classes are offered at four locations: