May & Jun: Making WordPress Work for You (If you live in the UK)

Making WordPress Work for You (delivered online) How to host your own WordPress site

09:30 - 16:00 Monday 13 May 2013
Online, JISC Netskills

WordPress is the publishing platform of choice for millions of people. It is powerful, flexible, extensible, open source, free and supported by an active community of developers and users. Exploiting the full potential of WordPress requires a self-hosted installation. This offers features not available on WordPress.com, allowing complete control over the style and functionality of a site through themes, plugins and customisation of WordPress templates.
This workshop will help you develop the practical skills needed to install, maintain and customise WordPress. Participants will build their own fully functional installation of WordPress on a USB drive, which can later be published or used for ongoing development.
This workshop will be delivered entirely online through your web browser. Just like our traditional workshops, we take a practical approach, offer the same quality learning experience, but without the time and expense of travel. We will send you a USB drive in advance, with all of the software you need pre-loaded.
Also included is a pre-workshop seminar, usually around a week beforehand. This will provide an introduction to some of the key themes of the workshop and an overview of Blackboard Collaborate (formally known as Elluminate), our web-based training system.

Topics:

• How WordPress works
• Installing, securing and configuring your site
• Themes, widgets and site customisation
• Extending WordPress with plugins and custom functions
• Not just a blog - alternative ways to use WordPress

Who is it for?

This workshop is for anyone considering hosting their own WordPress installation for a blog or website. It provides an opportunity to install, configure and customise a working WordPress site and explore what is involved in running it in practice.
This is not a technical workshop on server administration or developing for WordPress. Some knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP would be useful, but is not essential.

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