Ultimate Wordpress 3-day Course in Barcelona Code School explained

Описание: Welcome to the Ultimate Wordpress 3-day course in Barcelona Code School. This course with updated and improved curriculum has been with us from the very beginning of our school and proved to be one of the most successful ones. It is perfectly suitable for students without any prior knowledge or experience as well as for those of you who know something about WordPress. If you want to build a website from zero or if you have a website done by somebody else and need to understand how to manage, update or improve it, this course is a perfect fit.

First of all we start with explaining what you will need to have a website built and hosted online. You will learn about domains, hostings, servers, databases. How to pick the most suitable ones for different kinds of websites. We will show how to set up hosting, email accounts, how to install Wordpress in manual and automatic mode and activate it.

Then, once you have your new Wordpress website up and running we will go through the vital step of setting it up. WOrdpress is a web application with user friendly interface which works out of the box but there are many important settings to check to make sure that your website will take the most of Wordpress and work properly.

Next we explore all the possible types of content you can create in Wordpress and how to structure and present it to the users in the best possible way. We will see how pages, posts, categories, tags and navigation work in Wordpress. All the best practices, tips and tricks normally discoverable during years of experience would be revealed to you during the workshop.

Once we have the content we will move on to the themes section. Understanding how to pick a suitable theme, what to look at, where to find them is one of the crucial steps. We will experiment with several themes, setting them up and see how we can customize the look of any theme to make it custom and unique.

After getting familiar with the themes it’s time for the plugins, which are a super handy way to extend the functionality of your website. We hand picked several useful plugins for you to see all the possible ways the plugins could be installed, activated and used. Those plugins are arguable the must have ones and will improve your website instantly in their own way, like SEO optimization, solid backup workflow or social media integration.

The final section of the course is related to the eCommerce. We will see how in matter of hours you can set up a solid fully functioning online store to sell physical, digital or virtual goods, collect payments, manage shipments and stock. We will explain all the possible ways to integrate your eCommerce component with a website should it be a strict online store, just a section with products or seamless integration of couple of products with content oriented website.

The teaching approach we use is that every student is free to build their own project while following the instructor and learn while doing. So in the end you will have a finished website and understanding of how it was done. This is a 100% practical course so bring your laptop and a charger.