WordPress Comprehensive 3 Course Package


Wordpress

£200.00

Wordpress Master will show you how to keep your WordPress site backed-up, secure and running at peak-performance.

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Product Description

WordPress Master will show you how to keep your WordPress site backed-up, secure and running at peak-performance.
These sites are usually vunerable and slow unless you do something proactive to prevent it.
The essential tools and technologies described in this course will keep your WordPress site as safe and fast as any other type of website.

Highlights
It teaches you how to detect an intrusion and scan your site using free tools
It teaches you how to restore a WordPress site from backup
It teaches you how to rapidly get WordPress sites performing on a par with regular HTML websites
It teaches you how to measure (benchmark) your site’s performance
It teaches you how to keep your database tuned

WordPress Theme Selection & Customization
WordPress Masters course covers four of the most popular commercial theme families on the web (StudioPress, WooThemes, ElegantThemes, and Thesis), as well as sales-letter theme OptimizePress and the excellent free Weaver theme. We work with each one as we build out real client websites.
On completion of this course, you will understand how to choose a theme and how to use the most popular themes available for WordPress to make your site look it’s best.

Highlights
It helps you discover all the places where theme customizations are stored in WordPress
It shows you ways of implementing sliders
It displays sources for high-quality graphics that won’t break the bank
It shows WordPress security basics
It helps in creating tables in WordPress

WordPress Essentials for Business
WordPress Essentials is designed for busy small-business owners and self-employed professionals who want to quickly master the WordPress software for the purpose of creating an attractive website that generates leads and sales.
It is a quick (90 min) but thorough overview of using WordPress to create a business website. It.The course covers almost all of the WordPress user interface.
We learn by doing as we build out an actual website for a client of ours, explaining and demonstrating key concepts along the way, such as themes, plugins, widgets, images, and more.

Highlights
It enables image cropping and resizing tools that have been available since WordPress 3.5 only
It focuses on custom Menu Widget which has replaced the Links widget since WP 3.5
It shows how to use commercial plugins (and when you would need one)
It teaches how to setup multiple blog pages on a single site
It ensures WordPress security fundamentals (avoid getting hacked)

Course Study Format
This course is delivered through ONLINE method.
The course is available for you to complete at your convenience over a 12 month period.

IT Training Courseware Support
The entire home study courses include step by step online training and keyword search facilities.
Using show and ask training methods you can access the desired eLearning courseware step by step.
Our technical support team is available for 24 hours a day from Monday to Friday, to help you out regarding any queries related to your online course

Exams
All exam vouchers supplied with our courses must be used within the duration of your course. Exam Vouchers become invalid once the course has expired.

Word Press Back up Security & Performance
WORDPRESS BACKUP (33 min)
WordPress Backup Concepts
Backup On-Site Using BackWPUp
Backup Off-Site with BackWPUp
On-Demand Backup & Restore with WP Clone
On-Demand Backup & Restore with InfiniteWP
Backup + Manual WordPress Install with FTP & PHPMyAdmin
Restore with FTP & PHPMyAdmin

WORDPRESS SECURITY (10 min)
WordPress Security Basics
Scan Your Site with Sucuri & WordFence
Protect Your Site with Better WP Security

WORDPRESS PERFORMANCE (16 min)
Measure Your Site’s Speed with Pingdom & Yslow
Add Page Cache with W3 Total Cache
Optimize Database with WP Clean Up
Add CloudFlare Proxy Server & CDN

WordPress Theme Selection & Customization
Chapter 1: INTRO TO THEMES (6 min)
Introduction
How to Choose a Theme

Chapter 2: STUDIOPRESS BUILD (22 min)
Outside Tour of Associate Theme
Inside Tour of Associate & Genesis Themes
Populating Home Page Widget Areas
Adding a Slider
Other StudioPress Examples

Chapter 3: ELEGANT THEMES BUILD (17 min)
Outside Tour of Elegant Themes Feather Theme
Inside Tour of Feather Theme
Populating the Home Page
Other Elegant Themes Examples

Chapter 4: WOOTHEMES BUILD (13 min)
WooThemes Fresh News Build
Other WooThemes Examples

Chapter 5: OPTIMIZEPRESS BUILD (15 min)
Tour of OptimizePress
Creating a Squeeze Page
Creating a Sales Page

Chapter 6: THESIS BUILD (21 min)
Thesis 1.8 or 2.0?
Thesis 1.8 Installation & Quick Tour
Adding Header & Navbar
Adding Meteor Slider
Adding Center-Page 4×2 Table
Adding Footer Widgets in Thesis

Chapter 7: CSS STYLING (5 min)
Firebug CSS Inspector Tool; Creating CSS Overrides

Chapter 8: WEAVER BUILD (9 min)
Weaver Theme Tour
Weaver Theme Options

Chapter 9: RESPONSIVE THEMES (4 min)
What Is a Responsive Theme?

WordPress Essentials for Business
Chapter 1: WORDPRESS FUNDAMENTALS (7 min)
WordPress: What & Why
WordPress.org or WordPress.com?
What You Will Need

Chapter 2: HOSTING WORDPRESS (10 min)
Understanding Domain, Hosting, & Name Servers
Choosing a Domain Registrar & Hosting Company
Installing WordPress on Your Domain

Chapter 3: BUILDING OUT YOUR SITE: CONTENT & NAVIGATION (42 min)
Tour of an Out-of-the-Box WordPress Site
Tour of the WordPress Dashboard
Creating Pages & Posts
Using the Visual Editor
Working with Images
Hyperlinking
Configuring a Blog, Static Site, & Mixed Site
Removing the Home Page Title & Comments Box
Adding a Flat Navigation Bar
Adding a Drop-Down Navigation Bar
Installing a Free Theme
Installing a Commercial Theme
Modifying Your Theme Settings & Adding a Header
Working with the Weaver Theme
Setting Up Post Categories & Blog Pages

Chapter 4: WIDGET & WIDGET AREA (13 min)
Using the Latest Posts, Post Categories & Custom Menu Widgets
Using the Text Widget to Post Arbitrary Text or Images to Your Sidebar
Using the Text Widget to Post a Youtube Video

Chapter 5: PLUGINS (11 min)
Introduction to Plug-ins: Akismet Comment Spam Protection
Using the RSSImport Plug-in; Plug-ins that Require Shortcodes
Installing a Commercial Plug-in

Chapter 6: FINE-TUNING YOUR SITE (3 min)
Permalinks
Discussion Settings & Comment Moderation

Chapter 7: NEXT STEPS (8 min)
Commercial Themes
Graphic Sources
WordPress Security
How to Learn More

Job Prospects
Become fully trained and substantially improve your chances of employment or earn more money!

Interactive simulations
Feel like you are actually using the software you are being trained about in the added security of our learning environment.

Skills Assessments
Test yourself and receive a certificate online. Multiple choice or fill in the blanks style questioning helps you remember and learn.

Course Completion Certificate

*Please note, unless stated otherwise or included in package, our online courses only offer course completion certificates ( £10 fee) and in all cases official testing (at a charge made by testing centre) is required to gain officially certified recognised qualifications.

Unless otherwise specified, official exams are not included.