Seminar WordPress for Developers Basics
In this WordPress for developers course you will learn how to parameterize and set WordPress from the developer point of view. You will discover the main developer frameworks like ToolSet, Bootstrap, Elementor and the developer themes like Astra, GeneratePress or Elementor theme, as well as their specific uses. You will create theme files, edit the configuration files, create pages and get to know the hooks, filters and other interfaces of the WordPress community. There is a huge developer community, an excellent documentation and very good tools that let you reinvent WordPress with or without programming effort, for all imaginable purposes.
Urs Scheufele: Seminar leader and lecturer for WordPress for web developers
Date on request
Description
After discussing some prerequisites and tips and tricks in the training, you will be introduced to the basic concepts of WordPress. During the seminar develop a first small plugin and look at how to create and insert a widget in different places. Depending on your requirements, the training will focus either on plugins or on themes that are more focused on the layout of a page. In the further training it is useful to get familiar with the WordPress database. Participants will learn how to get, respectively process database information with built-in WordPress functions. In addition, we look at some developer tools. With suitable developer tools you can reduce the programming effort and still get professional results.
Possible training contents
Basics for developers
- Create themes, work with child themes;
- Database structure of WordPress and WooCommerce;
- The Loop: Display of pages and posts;
- Taxonomies;
- Conditional queries;
- Create menus;
- Security with WordPress Nonces;
- Form design;
- User-defined fields;
- Authorisation control;
- Import and export functions;
- Time-controlled tasks through cron jobs;
- Basic structure, widgets, keyboard shortcuts and responsive mode;
- Options in the Navigator;
- Full-Width - Canwas - Boxed Layout Settings;
- Button - Settings;
- Anchor menus;
- Coming Soon Page - Maintenance Mode;
- Display conditions for pages (e.g. different headers on pages) ;
- Event-driven pop-ups;
- Place elements in a column next to each other, so called inlines;
ToolSet as developer package for WordPress
- Integration of ToolSet in Elementor;
- Blocks: Content display in the frontend;
- User-defined fields / repeating field groups
- CRED: dynamic forms;
- Views: structured output of information;
- Custom Post Types and Templates;
- Access: Access control and management of user-defined roles;
- Maps: to visualise data on Google or Azure Map;
- Professional database queries with graphical processing / views;
- Forms and form control
- other topics in consultation with the seminar leader;
Recommended seminar duration
At least 4 days
Recommended 5 days
Target group
Advanced WordPress users, online editors, web developers, web designers and anyone who wants to plan and build a website with WordPress. You should have knowledge of the WordPress system structure and already have practical experience with WordPress as an administrator or blogger. Recommended is a WordPress - beginners seminar.
Available as
- Open seminar
- Online seminar
- Company training
- Individually tailored seminar
Your trainer
Urs Scheufele: Seminar leader and lecturer for WordPress for web developers
Price
Price from: 699,- Euro p. p. plus VAT.
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