ADVANCE WORDPRESS WEB DESIGN

ADVANCE WORDPRESS WEB DESIGN  

·         WHAT IS WORDPRESS?                                

• Basics & Fundamentals of WordPress.                                         
• Difference between cloud hosting and self-hosting WordPress
• Websites vs. Blogs
• Creating a WordPress blog within an existing website
• Post vs. pages
• WordPress themes
• WordPress plug-ins
• WordPress widgets
• Domain names and website hosting
• Choosing a domain name
• Setting up a domain name URL
• Setting up website hosting & email

·         INSTALLING WORDPRESS

• Installing WordPress using the C-Panel
• Manual Installation of WordPress
• A first look at WordPress
• Logging in to the WordPress Admin area
• Using the WordPress Dashboard
• A quick tour of the WordPress admin options
• Previewing your website

·         CREATING PAGES

• Creating a new page
• Entering a page title and body text
• Showing the Kitchen Sink
• Using the WordPress toolbar
• Using the More button
• Working in Full Screen
• Spell checking within WordPress
• Pasting from Word
• Formatting text
• Using Headers
• Removing formatting
• Inserting custom characters and symbols
• Previewing your page
• Draft vs. publishing
• Editing exiting pages
• Deleting pages

·         WORKING WITH PAGE HTML

• Using Block Quotes
• Indenting
• Help
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Advanced Page options
• Creating a static front page

·         IMAGES & WORDPRESS

• Uploading images
• The Image Library
• Deleting images from the Image Library
• Inserting images into a page or post
• Customising images
• Resizing images
• Alternative Text
• Captions
• Deleting images
• Featured images

·         MANAGING LINKS

• Adding internal text links
• Adding external text links
• The importance of Anchor text
• Linking from images
• Uploading documents
• Linking to file downloads
• Using Link Categories

·         YOUTUBE VIDEOS & WORDPRESS

• Simple automatic video embedding
• Embedding a YouTube video into a page or post
• Using YouTube plugins

·         CREATING BLOG POSTS

• The difference between posts and pages
• Creating a blog within your WordPress website

• CREATING A NEW POST
• Text & image formatting in a post
• Categories & Tags
• Creating and using categories
• Creating and using tags
• Managing comments in WordPress
• Changing comment settings
• Spam protection
• Managing comments

·         WORDPRESS WIDGETS

• What are widgets?
• The Widget area
• Using installed widgets
• Installing and customising new widgets

·         WORDPRESS THEMES

• Free or premium themes?
• Responsive themes
• How to find a WordPress theme
• Installing and activating a WordPress theme
• Exploring theme options
• Setting a custom background
• Setting custom header images

• WordPress menus

• Setting up and customizing a menu system

·         PLUGINS 

• Installing plug-ins
• Ten recommended plug-ins for WordPress websites
• SEO Plugins
• Must have SEO plugin
• Slider Plugins
• Sliders for pages, posts and pictures
• Installing a slider plugin
• Customising sliders
• Contact Form Plugins
• Using Form plugins
• Anti-spam measures (Using Captcha)
• Calender Plugins
• Using & configuring calendar plugins

·         BACKUP PLUGINS

• Backing up your WordPress data
• WordPress & Google Maps
• Embedding a Google map into a WordPress page or post
• Embedding a Google map into the WordPress sidebar
• Featured images, posts and pages
• Using featured images
• Using featured posts
• Using features pages
• Social Media integration
• Integrating with Facebook, YouTube & Twitter
• Updating WordPress, Themes & Plugins
• Updating WordPress
• Update a WordPress Plugin
• Updating a WordPress Theme
• Customising your basic WordPress installation options
• Basic WordPress settings
• Editing your profile
• Configuring site settings
• Setting your email address
• Creating user-friendly permalinks

·         WORDPRESS & SEO

• Understanding search engines
• Creating user-friendly permalinks
• Write keyword rich text in your pages and posts
• Using image Alt Tags
• Using an effective HTML title
• Using an effective HTML description
• Using keyword rich headers
• SEO Plugins
• Settings: Permalinks, privacy, comments etc.
• Sitemaps