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Making WordPress work for you

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Wednesday 22 February 2012

Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

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.

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is being run by our sister service JISC Netksills, all enquiries and bookings are being handled by them - JISC Netskills team.

Audience

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.

Content

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

Dates and locations

Wednesday 22 February 2012
Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Course fees Except where otherwise specified, one-day courses are charged at the following rates:

£150 for participants from UK Higher or Further Education

£175 for participants from government, charities, libraries, galleries or museums
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