WordPress Web Development

Beskrivning

The goal of this course is for the student to be familiar with WordPress as a web development environment. After passing this course, the student will have sufficient skills to implement simple WordPress themes and plugins.

• Installing and using WordPress.
• The basics of themes, plugins and widgets.
• The most common WordPress functions.
• Creating own functions and attaching them to hooks.
• Displaying posts and pages in a theme.
• Adding menus and sidebars to a theme.
• Creating custom queries for posts / pages and categories.
• Basics of responsiveness with CSS media queries and jQuery.
• Creating a custom plugin.
• Adding a custom post type and taxonomy.
• Implementing shortcodes.
• Creating a widget.

Förkunskapskrav

The basics of HTML/CSS and PHP programming.

Bedömningskriterier

The student understands how WordPress works as a web development environment and puts everything they have learned to practice in the course projects. Both projects and exams have been completed successfully.

Arbetsformer och schemaläggning

Course is 100% online (self-study) course and it can be done in own pace.

Anmälningsinformation

• You can enrol into this course whenever it’s suitable for you
• You can start course as soon as we have received your enrolment form
• The course does not have a course quota