WordPress Training Course

Installing WordPress

• Hosting options
• Sandbox Server
• Setting directory permissions

Navigating WordPress

• Dashboard
• Posts, Pages, Tags, Media, and More: Content Administration
• Accessing core blog settings
• Other settings

Configuring WordPress

• Selecting appropriate blog settings
• Moderating comments and comment spam
• Managing additional blog authors
• Caching and other performance optimizations
• WordPress.com notes
• Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• WordPress.com and WordPress.org: Complementary distinctions
• Creating your account
• Setting up distinct blogs
• Becoming familiar with the WordPress.com dashboard
• Optimizing settings for WordPress.com
• Selecting the right theme for your blog
• Configuring sidebar widgets
• When to add WordPress.com upgrades
• Organizing blog content
• Understanding the difference between posts and pages
• Organizing posts with categories
• Linking posts using tags
• Custom post types and custom taxonomies
• Adding a blogroll of links
• Creating and managing content with WordPress
• Working with the editors
• Detailed exploration of the new image editor
• Adding media to blogs and posts

Plugins

• Finding and utilizing plugins
• Locating plugins
• Installing plugins efficiently
• Upgrading plugins
• Recommended plugins

Themes

• Understanding WordPress theme structure
• Finding and selecting the right theme
• Installing themes
• Configuring advanced theme features
• Configuring widgets
• Customizing themes
• 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