WordPress Development

The WordPress training course provides skills to install, use and configure the software, understand its architecture, add new features/extend the core functionality by developing plugins, build new themes to change the look and feel of the site and also to internationalize the plugins and themes.

Objectives:

• Create web sites, web applications and blog sites quickly using WordPress as a framework
• Understand the WordPress architecture
• Build custom themes from scratch
• Develop plug-ins to extend the WordPress functionality
• Understand the Best Practices and Security Guidelines

Course Agenda:

• Introduction
• Setting up the server and installing WordPress
• Understanding wp-config.php and Enabling Debug
• Understanding the database structure
• Installing WordPress in its own directory
• Site Address and WordPress Address
• Settings and Configurations – Admin Dashboard
• Permalinks, URLs, Pages, Posts, Categories, Tags, Media, Home Page, Navigation
• WordPress features overview
• Introduction to WordPress Network/Multisite
• Installing Plug-ins and Themes – Understanding file structure
• Understanding Widgets
• User Management and User Roles
• WordPress in your Language
• Using Instant WordPress to quickly set up a WP dev environment
• Developing WordPress Plugins
• Introduction to WordPress plugins and Preparing to develop one
• The WordPress Plugin API – Hooks aka Actions and Filters
• Hooking to WordPress using Actions and Filters – Examples
• Pluggable Functions & Drop-ins
• A sample plugin!
• Writing plugin functions in a Class
• Loading Scripts and Using Ajax
• Administration Menus and Administration Panels
• Storing data – Options, Post Meta and Database Table
• Creating Options Page to save plugin options
• Using Cache
• Template Tags
• Shortcode API with example
• Internationalization of plugins: Preparing, Generating .pot file, Adding Translations, Compiling .mo files and Loading the language file
• Developing WordPress Widget
• Extending the Widget Class
• Widgets API, Rendering Widget and Admin Widget Form
• Example
• Developing A WordPress Theme
• Anatomy, Style sheets, Functions
• Template Hierarchy
• Template Files
• Custom Page & Query Based Templates
• Conditional Tags and Loops
• Custom Templates & Including Template Files
• Supporting Plugin API Hooks in Themes
• Theme Classes
• A Sample Theme!
• Navigation Menu and Drop-Down Menus
• Supporting WP Widgets
• Theme Options Page
• Miscellaneous
• Quick look in to other WordPress APIs
• Data Input Validation and Sanitization
• WordPress Coding Standards
• Security and Performance