Wordpress for Content Management

Price:

£275
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Course duration:

1 day

Course dates:

Friday 13th August 2010Monday 15th November 2010

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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 nti’s trainer will ensure that you leave the Wordpress 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 who build websites with an knowledge of HTML and CSS and who would like to understand how to use Wordpress as a Content Management System. This course would also be valuable to font-end web designers with little or no php knowledge and who are looking for a simple way of integrating designs into a complete and mature content management system .

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"

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

Course outline:

Day 1
Lesson		Description
1	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 contentLearn 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

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