Beyond the basics: WordPress Website Development

Weston College is the ninth biggest college group in the country. It won both College of the Year and Overall FE Provider of the Year at the 2015 TES Awards. It offers courses ranging from entry level to Master’s Degree level, plus apprenticeships, traineeships and courses to help prepare people for the world of work.Weston College won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2017, just two weeks after winning two Association of Colleges’ (AOC) Beacon Awards for Widening Participation and Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities.

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Designed for more experienced WordPress users, this session is for users looking to develop new sites from scratch using WordPress

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WordPress is the world’s most popular, free, Website Content Management Platform (CMS) and is used by ~44% of all Websites on the Internet. Its highly customisable interfaces, and widely available free and inexpensive plugins gives SMEs an excellent framework to build everything from single-page websites to fully customisable e-commerce experiences.

This session is designed for more technical/experienced WordPress users looking to develop new sites from scratch using WordPress as a platform: This could include developing a new website, rebranding, giving an existing site a new theme or update/refresh. This hands-on, practical session will review both freely available and commercial themes and explore how these can be adapted to meet your brand and requirements.

This course may also be useful for those who are not actively developing WP sites but would like to learn more about the development process, capabilities and workflow when overseeing projects or going to tender to inform decisions.

Additional topics will include WordPress disaster recovery, managing users and different access levels and an introduction to custom WordPress Theme development (Including HTML/CSS/PHP, although this will only address how/where these are applied). Finally we will review some of the day-to-day performance opsonisations and benchmarking WP performance.

Schedule
9:30-12:30 - Morning interactive sessions 
12:30-1:00 – Lunch
1:00-2:00pm – Afternoon session
2:00- 4:00pm – Open workshop &amp; 121 support 

Laptops can be made available upon request; however you may find it easier to bring your own. If you would like to to use your own WordPress Website, or require any troubleshooting please ensure you have access to your site login details.

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