WordPress 201 – Advanced WordPress

Our aim is for the students to get the most out of the class, so class material can have a measure of fluidity, but Participants will learn:

CODE OVERVIEW

• Downloading
• Directory and File Stucture
• WordPress Configuration
• WP-content User Playground

WORKING WITH WORDPRESS LOCALLY

• Benefits of Working Locally
• Tools for Component Administration
• Configuration Details
• Deploying Local changes

TOUR OF THE CORE

• Whats in the Core?
• Using the Core as a Reference
• WordPress Codex and Resources
• Don’t Hack the Core!

THE LOOP

• Understanding the Loop
• Template tags
• Customizing the Loop
• Global Variables
• Working Outside the Loop

DATA MANAGEMENT

• Database Schema
• Table details
• WordPress Database Class
• Direct Database manipulation

CUSTOM POST TYPES, CUSTOM TAXONOMIES, AND METADATA

• Understanding Data in WordPress
• WordPress Taxonomy
• Building your own Taxonomy
• Metadata

PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT

• Plugin Packaging
• Plugin Security
• Know your hooks: actions and filters
• Plugin Settings
• WordPress Integration
• Creating a Plugin example
• Publishing to the Plugin directory

MULTISITE

• What is Multisite?
• Working in a Network
• Coding for Multisite
• Multisite Database Schema

CONTENT AGGREGATION

• Getting noticed
• Simple social networking badges
• Collecting external content
• Advertising

Other sections covered include:

STATISTICS, SCALABILITY, SECURITY, AND SPAM

WORDPRESS AS A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

WORDPRESS IN THE ENTERPRISE

WORDPRESS DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. This outline does not guarantee that all the topics listed will be covered in the time allowed. The amount of material covered is based on the skill level of the student audience. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.