WORDPRESS MASTER (EC112009)

Wordpress Master will show you how to keep your WordPress site backed-up, secure and running at peak-performance.

These sites are usually vunerable and slow unless you do something proactive to prevent it.

The essential tools and technologies described in this course will keep your WordPress site as safe and fast as any other type of website.

Highlights

It teaches you how to detect an intrusion and scan your site using free tools

It teaches you how to restore a WordPress site from backup

It teaches you how to rapidly get WordPress sites performing on a par with regular HTML websites

It teaches you how to measure (benchmark) your site's performance

It teaches you how to keep your database tuned

WordPress Theme Selection & Customization

WordPress Masters course covers four of the most popular commercial theme families on the web (StudioPress, WooThemes, ElegantThemes, and Thesis), as well as sales-letter theme OptimizePress and the excellent free Weaver theme. We work with each one as we build out real client websites.

On completion of this course, you will understand how to choose a theme and how to use the most popular themes available for WordPress to make your site look it's best.

Highlights

It helps you discover all the places where theme customizations are stored in WordPress

It shows you ways of implementing sliders

It displays sources for high-quality graphics that won't break the bank

It shows WordPress security basics

It helps in creating tables in WordPress

WordPress Essentials for Business

WordPress Essentials is designed for busy small-business owners and self-employed professionals who want to quickly master the WordPress software for the purpose of creating an attractive website that generates leads and sales.

It is a quick (90 min) but thorough overview of using WordPress to create a business website. It.The course covers almost all of the WordPress user interface.

We learn by doing as we build out an actual website for a client of ours, explaining and demonstrating key concepts along the way, such as themes, plugins, widgets, images, and more.

Highlights

It enables image cropping and resizing tools that have been available since WordPress 3.5 only

It focuses on custom Menu Widget which has replaced the Links widget since WP 3.5

It shows how to use commercial plugins (and when you would need one)

It teaches how to setup multiple blog pages on a single site

It ensures WordPress security fundamentals (avoid getting hacked)