WordPress Essentials

WordPress Essentials
$595 / 2 days / 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)


A Live, Instructor-led Online Class
with Mary Gillen

WordPress is a popular open source publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It can be used to create "hybrid" Web sites that include Web pages, blog posts, RSS feeds, search functionality, ecommerce shopping carts, and more.

It is also a content management framework, with a user-friendly workflow, diversified plugin architecture, and advanced templating system. According to Wikipedia, WordPress is used to structure and format over 202 million Web sites worldwide.

Goal
Learn how to configure and customize a WordPress Web site or blog.

Audience
If you want to create a Web site or blog without buying Web design or database software, this class is for you.

Prerequisites
Attendees should be comfortable with basic HTML prior to taking this course.

Software Needed on Each Student Computer

• Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• Firefox 2 or higher
• XAMPP Apache distribution containing MySQL and PHP
• Web page or text editor students will be using after the class

Objectives
At the end of this class, successful participants will be able to

• Set up the WordPress development environment
• Describe how PHP and MySQL work
• Install WordPress
• Decipher the WordPress file structure
• Add content to WordPress
• Customize your WordPress theme
• Use Wordpress widgets and plugins
• Customize your WordPress settings to optimize your search engine results

Next Step
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Essentials with Mary Gillen to learn the other ways (besides WordPress) to optimize your search results.