Advanced WordPress Course - United Arab Emirates

Basic Concepts

1. Networking
2. Internet
3. Domain
4. Hosting
5. Website & its types; Dynamic & Static
6. Blogs, Web, CMS, MicroBlogging, Social Community,Application

Basic HTML

1. Notepad
2. Basic HTML Tags
3. MS Front Page

Introduction to web accessories

1. cPanel
2. FTP Softwares
3. Color Picker
4. Pixel Ruler

WordPress Introduction

1. What is WordPress?
2. How can WordPress help me?
3. How much does WordPress cost?
4. How/where do I get WordPress?
5. WordPress Installation

Preparation

1. Reserving a domain name
2. Choosing web hosting

Installation on Server

1. Installing WordPress from scratch
2. Creating & Connecting Database
3. Changing your password

Installation on Local Host

1. Downloading & Installing XAMPP
2. Understanding the folders
3. Creating & Connecting DB
4. Getting Started

Overview of the Homepage

1. Posts
2. Pages
3. Sidebar
4. Search
5. First Face of Dashboard.
6. A blog would be made, in default theme.

What is a post?

1. Your first post basics
2. Post; Details
3. Working with photos
4. Working with videos
5. Categories & slugs

What is a page?

1. Difference between post & page
2. Your first page
3. Pages; Details
4. Working with photos/videos
5. Media
6. Links
7. Comments

Themes

1. What is a theme?
2. Folder Strategy
3. Finding a great theme
4. Theme directories
5. Paid themes
6. Installing a theme, ways & techniques

Plugins

1. What are plugins?
2. Folder & File Strategy
3. Finding plugins
4. Plugin directory
5. Plugin search
6. Installing plugins ways & techniques

Widgets

1. What is a sidebar?
2. What are sidebar widgets?
3. Choosing and installing sidebar widgets
4. Adding links
5. Adding text and images
6. Header; how to make a beautiful header ?
7. Using theme features
8. Using Static images
9. GIF files

Footer; How to maintain Footer?

1. Using widgets
2. Static & gif images

Working with sliders

1. Working with Theme options
2. Using plugins
3. Dynamicity & possibilities

Menus

1. Menus default options
2. Theme default options
3. Arranging multiple menus

Users

1. Add/edit users
2. User roles
3. How to delete users
4. What if user is mistakenly deleted
5. Tools

Settings

1. General
2. Writing
3. Reading
4. Discussion
5. Media
6. Privacy
7. Permalinks
8. Flickr RSS
9. Changing & working with a new theme, this too would be a blog.

Themes; Advance Lecture

1. Finding a great related theme
2. Theme Options
3. Troubleshooting with theme options & wp default options
4. Artisteer; download, usage, tips & tricks

Plugins; Advance Lecture

1. Choosing a plugin
2. Recommended plugin list for:
3. Photo galleries
4. SEO
5. Contact and other Forms
6. Web Statistics
7. Anti Spam
8. Social Networking
9. WP Super Cache
10. All in one SEO
11. Google Sitemaps XML
12. Search Everything
13. WP-DB Manager
14. WP Touch
15. The mobile pack plugin
16. Rank Tracker

Basic CSS

1. Basic rules & tags
2. Quick understanding of CSS

WP in operation theater

1. Inspect Element
2. Location of files
3. Customizing website as required
4. A new website would be made using a premium theme

Understanding the exact needs of website

1. Business/organization/product info
2. Vision & expectations from website
3. Estimated budget/time
4. WordPress Expert Level

Posts

1. Backing up & restoration
2. Bulk post creation/deletion

Migrating WP

1. From localhost to server (all possible scenarios)
2. Using advance plugins
3. Auto installation of WP on server

Managing Users

1. Understanding user management
2. User Role management
3. Plugins used for managing users

Working with Advance Plugins

1. Forms; reating and customizing a contact form
2. Anti Spam; Preventing Spam in your comments
3. Social Networking; Hooking in Twitter and Facebook
4. Search Engine Optimization (SEO); Making your site more Google Friendly
5. Urdu Plugins
6. Islamic Plugins & Gadgets
7. Ecommerce plugins/themes overview
8. Video advance plugins

How to adapt & grow the site

1. Custom Post Types
2. Custom Taxonomies
3. Parent-child themes

WordPress Upgrades

1. How to upgrade WordPress
2. Advance Tips & Tricks
3. Generating RSS & Atom Feeds
4. Troubleshooting & finding support on internet