WordPress Training Course

Installing WordPress

• Hosting options
• Sandbox Server
• Setting directory permissions

Navigating WordPress

• Dashboard
• Posts, Pages, Tags, Media, and More: Content Administration
• Utilizing core settings for your blog
• Other configuration settings

Configuring WordPress

• Selecting appropriate settings for your blog
• Moderating comments and spam
• Managing additional authors on your blog
• Caching and performance optimization
• WordPress.com notes
• Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• Complementary aspects of WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• Creating your account
• Setting up different blogs
• Familiarizing yourself with the WordPress.com dashboard
• Configuring settings for WordPress.com
• Selecting the right theme for your blog
• Configuring sidebar widgets on your blog
• Determining when to add WordPress.com upgrades
• Organizing blog content
• Understanding the distinction between Posts and Pages
• Organizing posts with Categories
• Connecting posts using Tags
• Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
• Adding a blogroll of links
• Creating and managing content with WordPress
• Working with the Editors
• In-depth hands-on experience with the new Image Editor
• Adding media to your blog and posts

Plugins

• Discovering and using plugins
• Finding plugins
• Efficiently installing plugins
• Upgrading plugins
• Recommended plugins

Themes

• Understanding the structure of WordPress themes
• Finding themes and selecting the right one for your blog
• Installing themes on your blog
• Configuring additional theme features
• Configuring widgets
• Editing themes for personalization
• Using Theme Frameworks and Parent-Child Themes
• Theme best practices
• WordPress.com notes

Maintaining WordPress

• Updating and upgrading WordPress
• Updating plugins and themes
• Database maintenance for WordPress users
• WP-DBManager