WordPress Training Course

Installing WordPress

• Hosting options
• Sandbox Server
• Setting Your Directory Permissions

Navigating WordPress

• Dashboard overview
• Posts, Pages, Tags, Media, and More: Content Administration
• Accessing the Core Settings for Your Blog
• Other Settings

Configuring WordPress

• Choosing the Right Settings for Your Blog
• Moderating Comments and Managing Comment Spam
• Managing Additional Authors on Your Blog
• Caching and Other Performance Tune-Ups
• WordPress.com Notes
• Understanding the Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• WordPress.com and WordPress.org: Complementary Differences
• Creating Your Account
• Setting Up Multiple Blogs
• Familiarizing Yourself with the WordPress.com Dashboard
• Optimizing Your Settings for WordPress.com
• Selecting the Ideal Theme for Your Blog
• Configuring Sidebar Widgets on Your Blog
• When to Add WordPress.com Upgrades to Your Blog
• Organizing Content on Your Blog
• Distinguishing Between Posts and Pages
• Organizing Your Posts with Categories
• Connecting Your Posts Through Tags
• Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
• Adding a Blogroll of Links to Your Blog
• Creating and Managing Content with WordPress
• Hands On with the Editors
• Detailed Hands-on with the New Image Editor
• Adding Media to Your Blog and Posts

Plugins

• Finding and Using Plugins
• Finding Plugins
• Installing Plugins Quickly and Easily
• Upgrading Plugins
• Recommended Plugins

Themes

• Understanding the Structure of WordPress Themes
• Finding Themes and Choosing the Right One for Your Blog
• Installing Themes on Your Blog
• Configuring Extra Features on Themes
• Configuring Widgets
• Editing a Theme to Make it Your Own
• 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