Web Development with WordPress: From Zero to Deploy
₦235,000
This course is a complete guide to building professional websites with WordPress. It moves beyond basic use to teach how WordPress works under the hood. You’ll start by setting up a development environment and learning core administration.
The curriculum then dives into how to extend functionality by using plugins. The course emphasizes essential best practices for speed, security, and search engine optimization (SEO).
Finally, you’ll learn how to take a website from a local project and successfully launch it on a live server. By the end, you’ll have the skills to build fully customized, fast, and secure websites for yourself or clients.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Explain the core architecture of WordPress and the difference between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org.
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Set up a local development environment for building and testing websites safely.
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Demonstrate proficiency in administering a WordPress site, including managing users, content, and settings.
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Implement custom designs by translating basic HTML and CSS into a functional WordPress theme.
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Utilize PHP to create dynamic templates that pull and display content from the WordPress database.
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Extend WordPress functionality by creating a simple, custom plugin.
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Apply best practices for website security, search engine optimization (SEO), and performance optimization.
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Migrate a locally developed website to a live web hosting server and manage it effectively.
From Basics to Advanced: What You’ll Achieve in This Training
- Introduction to WordPress: WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org.
- Understanding Domains, Hosting, and SSL Certificates.
- Installing WordPress on a Live Server (using cPanel “Softaculous” or manual install).
- Local Development Environment: Installing and using Local by Flywheel, Xampp or Laragoon.
- A Tour of the WordPress Dashboard.
Practical Exercise: Install WordPress on your local machine and on a practice server provided by the course.
- Content Types: Posts vs. Pages vs. Custom Post Types.
- The Gutenberg Block Editor: Mastering blocks, reusable blocks, and patterns.
- Managing Media: The Library, file types, and best practices.
- Comments, Users, and Roles: Understanding permissions.
- Core Settings: Permalinks, reading, writing, and discussion settings.
Practical Exercise: Build a sample website structure with pages, create blog posts, and configure all core settings.
- The WordPress Template Hierarchy (conceptual overview).
- Finding and Installing Themes.
- The Customizer: Site Identity, menus, widgets, and homepage settings.
- Full Site Editing (FSE) & Block Themes: Working with global styles, template parts, and the Site Editor.
- Page Builders: Introduction to Elementor and how they differ from standard themes.
Practical Exercise: Customize a free theme using the Customizer and create a complex page layout using the Block Editor.
- Finding and Evaluating Plugins: Security, ratings, and update frequency.
- Must-Have Plugin Categories: SEO (Rank Math/Yoast), Security (Wordfence/Sucuri), Caching, and Backups.
- Installing and Configuring Key Plugins.
- Introduction to e-commerce with WooCommerce (overview).
Practical Exercise: Harden the security, configure SEO settings, and set up an automated backup solution for your site using plugins.
- Performance: Caching strategies (Browser, Page, Object), image optimization, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
- Security: Hardening WordPress (securing
wp-config.php, limiting login attempts), common vulnerabilities. - Maintenance: Managing updates (core, theme, plugin), conducting regular backups, and using staging sites.
Practical Exercise: Run a performance audit using GTmetrix and implement caching and image optimization to improve scores.
- Pre-Launch Checklist: Testing links, forms, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Migrating a Site: Using plugins like Duplicator or All-in-One WP Migration to move from local to live server.
- Going Live: Updating DNS records.
- Post-Launch: Monitoring traffic with Google Analytics, managing ongoing SEO, and maintaining the site.
Practical Exercise: Package your locally developed website and migrate it to your live web hosting account.
Students will plan, design, develop, and deploy a complete website for a fictional client or personal project. The project must demonstrate the use of a custom theme, custom functionality via a plugin, and adherence to best practices in security and performance.
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