Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Advanced WordPress
Following on from our
Introduction to WordPress training course, our WordPress advanced course digs deeper into the native capabilities of WordPress, as well as to highlight a variety of plugins, tips, modules and scripts available that can greatly enhance the capabilities of your WordPress driven website. From improving and expanding on the SEO capabilities of your site by way of specialised SEO plugins, we also examine how WordPress can be used as a social media engine and a shopping cart ecommerce solution, as well as to cover many suggestions, hints and recommendations regarding how you can greatly improve your WordPress functionality, security and performance.
Exploring the greater capabilities of WordPress in a variety of different guises, this course teaches you how to use WordPress as a powerful shopping cart solution, using one of a number of plugins to integrate a product database with a payment gateway provider such as PayPal, allowing businesses of any size and circumstance to quickly and easily harness WordPress as a tool for selling their products and services directly. In addition to shopping carts, WordPress can also be used as a social media engine, allowing the setup and management of community based websites with far greater control than those available via Facebook or LinkedIn. Both of these subjects are explored in depth during the course.
In addition to the above, this course also highlights a variety of specialised methods and techniques enabling you to better manage, maintain and refine your WordPress website: from eliminating duplicate posts and disabling visitor comments to backing up your WordPress data and improving many of the default functions of WordPress, this course offers an intensive and comprehensive guide, designed to ensure that your WordPress website functions efficiently.
Also available in this series are our
Introduction to WordPress and our
WordPress Theme Design training courses.
You may also attend all three of our WordPress training courses within one discounted package in our
Complete WordPress Training Course.
Duration: 1 day.
Prerequisites: The training is tailored for Web Designers and Webmasters with a good understanding of HTML & CSS who wish to incorporate their designs into WordPress.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
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Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to CS3, CS4 and CS5 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. Our Apple training courses utilise Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Deeper into WordPress
- WordPress roles and how best to manage them
- Setting up custom panels
- Adding and displaying custom fields
- Customising your navigation
- Understanding pings and trackbacks
- Caching for better performance
WordPress and SEO
- Refining the standard settings in WordPress for SEO
- Permalinks and Sitemaps in more depth
- The best SEO plugins
- Content writing with SEO in mind
- Setting up Google Analytics
- Affiliate networks and partner sites
WordPress and Social Media
- Social Media Plugins for WordPress
- Integrating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn into WordPress
- Turning WordPress into a community website with BuddyPress
- Custom profile filters for user registration
- The art of moderating users
- Walled gardens and private networks
- Using RSS and Feedburner to spread the word
WordPress Shopping Carts
- What you need to know about Ecommerce
- Paypal plugins
- Shopping cart plugins
- Setting up and configuring E-commerce plugins
- Back-end administration systems
WordPress for YouTube video & media
- Embedding YouTube videos
- YouTube plugins for WordPress
- Integration with other video sites
- Integration with Flickr and other photo sites
- Banner rotators, adverts and slideshow plugins
WordPress tips and tricks
- Posting to your blog using email
- Setting up scheduled postings with CRON
- Disabling autosave and revisions to improve performance
- Removing duplicate posts
- Removing visitor comments options
- More about the .htaccess file and how to use it
- Improving the default WordPress search
- Improving your WordPress website security
- Backing up your WordPress data
