Introduction to WordPress: ($25) Six lessons guiding you step-by-step through all of the basic aspects of WordPress development.
- Manual installation of WordPress software on a remote web server.
- Understanding the Dashboard interface
- Installing different themes to change your blog design.
- How to use plugins to extend the functionality
- How to market and monetize your blog
- SEO tips and tricks
- Review of WordPress template tags
- Learn the basics of PHP syntax.
- Creating a basic theme from scratch (including example files).
- Code review of basic theme (line by line).
View the complete first lesson (.pdf) to give you an idea of how topics are covered.
Intermediate WordPress: ($5) One lesson on how to setup and install a local ‘development’ blog on your home computer.
Once you creating your online blog, you will probably want to continue ‘tweaking’ it (themes, plugins, pages, etc.). Professional designers and developers always have a local environment to develop and test before it goes ‘live’. WordPress is no different.
- Easily install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on any Windows PC (or Mac)
- Setup a local installation of WordPress as your local ‘development’ blog site
Intermediate WordPress: ($15) Three lessons showing you how to create a theme from scratch.
- Blog design considerations
- Development of a 3-column HTML/CSS theme mockup
- Explanation and use of various WordPress template tags
- Breaking up mockup to various template files
- Understanding template files for use with static pages
- Creation of a Magazine format WordPress theme
- Debugging and troubleshooting best practices
- All files (JPG, HTML, CSS, PHP) included
View a partial third lesson (.pdf) to give you an idea of how topics are covered.
Intermediate WordPress: ($5) One lesson on learning more useful plugins that can be used with your blog.
- Speed up your blog’s performance
- Help you get more traffic
- Give better search results
- Display multiple posts more efficiently
- Add a forum to your site