Content type: Lesson Plan

  • The Loop

    In this lesson, you will learn what The Loop is and when to use it? This step-by-step walkthrough will give you an understanding of how to use The Loop to display lists of post titles, links, and other content. Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Define The Loop. Explain why The Loop…

  • Theme Accessibility

    Making your WordPress theme accessible has multiple benefits. Not only do you make it more friendly to the various devices and environments that people of all abilities use on a daily basis but search engines also reward efforts to make sites accessible. Description In this lesson, we’ll go over a few basic things that can be incorporated…

  • Managing Classic Theme Menus

    Menus provide a list of links for website navigation. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create menus for classic themes with links to pages and other content, how to place menus in various locations, and how to customize and manage menus. Objectives At the end of this lesson, you will be able to do the following with…

  • Theme Internationalization

    Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”. People from all over the world create WordPress sites in different languages. While WordPress has translations for over 162 languages, you will be only able to see languages that are fully translated (62). If you do not see…

  • Managing Comments

    In this lesson, you will learn how your readers can communicate through comments and how to manage those comments on your WordPress site.   Objectives After going through this lesson, students will be able to: Locate and change the status of comments left on their site. Prerequisite Skills You will be better equipped to work through…

  • Theme Troubleshooting

    In this module you’ll learn about the basic troubleshooting steps that can be taken when something goes wrong with your WordPress theme.  The lesson will focus on troubleshooting an existing install of WordPress when activating, changing, or updating a theme. Prerequisite Skills You will be better equipped to work through this lesson if you have…

  • User Management

    Description In this module you’ll learn how to add, edit, and remove users within your WordPress website. This module will introduce the user roles that exist within WordPress, but will focus on the how-to of user management, and not the organizational philosophy behind deciding which users are assigned various roles and permissions. Objectives After completing this…

  • Managing Media

    This lesson plan discusses the various ways that WordPress Media Manager handles media. Objectives In this lesson plan, you will learn how to upload and insert image files, document files, audio files, and video files.  You will also learn how to re-size, format, link, and include these media files into your posts and pages. Prerequisite Skills A basic…

  • Themes/Plugins Relationship

    In this lesson, you will learn how themes and plugins relate to each other as well as when and why you would want to use one or the other. Objectives At the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Fully understand what a theme is, what a plugin is, and the difference between…

  • Web Fonts

    Why Web Fonts? They make a huge impact on the look and feel of your website, as well as the overall readability. You will learn how to use these to make your website stand out. Prerequisite Skills Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS Basic knowledge of installing and activating WordPress themes Understanding of how folders and files…