WordPress - Advanced Course

You don’t need any programming experience, but a little CSS knowledge is useful. You need to know how to use a text editor and a FTP programme.

If you think this course is too advanced, please take a look at the Intermediate WordPress course.

This two-day training course will consolidate your WordPress knowledge allowing you to build sophisticated, branded and customised web sites.

Day one

• Introduction
• Overview of theme: Theme frameworks, child themes, and vertical themes
• Advanced theming: Anatomy of a child theme
• Exercise: Let’s create a child theme
• Functions.php: Media sizes and some useful snippets of PHP code
• Exercise: Beefing up Twenty Eleven
• E-commerce in-depth: Eshop and WooCommerce
• Event Management: Events, calendars and tickets
• Advanced content plugins: Types and views

Day two

• Multiple users in-depth: Adding workflow and responsibilities
• Multi-site and BuddyPress: Building a community or social network
• Third-party authentication: Logging-in with Facebook and Twitter
• Building a membership site: Overview and some useful plugins
• Production tools: Branding the admin screens
• Marketing tools: Stats, mailing lists, and more
• Enhancing the admin for your clients: Some useful tools and plugins
• Free for all, Q&A, show & tell

The advanced course takes your WordPress skills to the next level. You will learn:

• how to build advanced websites for yourself and your clients
• how to customise and brand administration screens
• how to build an e-commerce site
• how to create events booking and membership sites
• how to build a truly unique theme using WordPress child theme capabilities
• how to choose the right production and marketing tools for your needs

After completing the class, you will have:

• The ability to install and configure WordPress on a hosting account
• Built an e-commerce site
• Customise administration themes, and built a child theme
• Learnt how to configure a WordPress multi-site
• Learnt how to choose the right marketing and monitoring tools
• By the end of this course you will have the insight and skills to build sophisticated, branded and customised web sites for yourself and/or your clients.

This is a very practical hands-on course where you will complete exercises, ask questions and engage in discussions to make the most of the time.

Business Training will provide a training certificate to each participant.