WordPress – Easy Web Development

WordPress is one of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems in existence today. This course will help save you from many hours of trial and error frustration in building your first custom WordPress site.

Please note, new dates for this course will be confirmed in April. If you'd like to be the first to know when this course is available to book, simply click the 'Register Your Interest' button and provide your details.

Course details

The popularity of WordPress is largely due to its user friendliness and flexibility, and as such allows anyone to build great looking sites without the need to be hugely tech savvy or possess formal digital credentials.

WordPress can be used as both a blogging platform and as a content management system, enabling you to be able to update their site whenever you want to.

It's also possible to turn your WordPress site into an e-commerce store with shopping cart or even a portfolio site with gallery.

Each lesson in this hand-son course will build upon previous subjects or themes covered. At the end of the course you'll have the chance to use your newly developed skills to build your first custom WordPress site.

Introduction to WordPress
Hosting requirements
Installing theme and demo content
Site layout – planning the layout of your site
Working with pages and posts
Adding content, using revisions
Drip feeding blog posts
Trackbacks and pingbacks
How to insert a link
Users, author bio and tools
Creating a navigation menu and managing comments
The WordPress loop
Working with media elements – images, audio, video
Post taxonomies – categories and tags
Determining what cookies your site uses
Adding legal documentation to your site – terms and conditions, privacy policy
Working with themes and plugins
Working with widgets and shortcode widgets
Customising your WordPress site: theme options, custom CSS
Customising admin
Branding site
Importing Google fonts
Working with custom post types
Working with page templates, shortcodes and page builder
Adding Google Maps
On-page SEO and blogging
Image optimisation
SEO friendly versus optimised
Improving site speed
Using social share and follow buttons
WordPress security
Ecommerce (optional)
Adding calls to action and contact forms
Setting up a newsletter
Mini project
Move WordPress (on request)

The course aims to:

Provide you with the skills to competently manage a WordPress site
Develop your skills to enable you to enhance the functionality of the site via plugins and widgets
Guide you to work with the selected theme to obtain the desired look
Give you an overall understanding of how WordPress works and hosting requirements

Demonstration understanding of topic/s covered in session
Successful completion of session exercises
Completion of mini project
All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Short Course certificate of attendance. To request your certificate get in touch with the course team at shortcourses@aub.ac.uk

As this is an introductory course, it is assumed that all students have not used WordPress before and so will be starting from the beginning. Suitable for budding web developers aged 18+.

All course materials are included in the course fee.