WordPress Development Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

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.

By attending WordPress workshop, delegates will learn to:

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

Intermediate knowledge or work experience in PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS

This WordPress class is suitable for:

Web Developers who want to get hands on experience in setting up & configuring WordPress and also build plug-ins and themes for it
Web Designers who want to learn to build themes for WordPress out of their design
Software Programmers who want to learn to build plug-ins for WordPress

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

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