WordPress Advanced Training Course 904

User Permissions, Theme Designs, Plugins and Backup

Many of the skills taught in the advanced course will be performed by external contractors unless you’re very tech savvy and want to give it a go. Even if you don’t perform these tasks you’ll understand how they work and can use this knowledge to ensure that your web development team are giving you the right information and advice.

Administration Privileges and Settings (2)

With Administrator privileges you are now able to affect global aspects of your websites appearance. You can also arrange the website layout and user access permission. The image above shows the installed WordPress Plugins and you can see one allows your website to be re-sized automatically if the person viewing your website is using an iPhone or iPad.

Understanding Administrator privileges
General Settings including Page titles
Writing and Reading Settings – including Home page formatting
Writing and Reading Settings – Setting Home and Blog Pages
Reading Settings – Number of Posts and RSS Feed intro
Permalinks, page names and Search Engine Optimisation
Managing Users, modifying roles and creating new users
Deleting Users and allocating links and posts
Introduction to Plugins – download WPtouch for iPads and iPhones
Working with Premium Plugins like GravityForms

WordPress Themes and Design Options (3)

There are potentially hundreds of thousands of themes available for Websites driven by WordPress. Some are free and others cost money, but either way you look at them, they enable you to have a professional website for one tenth of what you would pay to have someone design one from scratch! This image shows some of the Premium WordPress themes that are available for under $50.

Background colours, and header images are just the beginning. Learn to install free and premium themes and then customise them using widgets, plugins, custom menus and RSS newsfeeds

WordPress Design – Changing the layout completely with different Themes
WordPress Design – Finding the best theme and downloading it
WordPress Design – Installing and activating a theme
WordPress Design – Theme appearance options are specific to the theme
WordPress Design – Background and Header appearance for default WordPress theme
WordPress Design – Uploading your own background image
WordPress Design – Working with widgets and the sidebar
WordPress Design – Widgets in more detail – tag cloud, text, meta
WordPress Design – Create alternate menus and apply them to your theme
WordPress Design – Customising menus with external links and categories
WordPress Design – Advanced Theme Appearance Options
WordPress Design – Different Widgets for different Themes
WordPress Design – Widgets and RSS newsfeeds

Website Hosting Control Panel – email (4)

Your website hosting control panel provides you with stats about your website usage, but most importantly your email and other applications. Learn how to manage your email accounts and email access.

Website Hosting – Control Panel Resource
Website Hosting – Create an Email Account Resource
Website Hosting – Setting up the Email Account on your computer Resource
Website Hosting – Using your email address with webmail Resource
Website Hosting – Email Catch-all, Forwarder and AutoResponders Resource
Website Hosting – Website Statistics and logs Resource

File Management and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) (6)

WordPress Advanced training Course FTP and website hosting training

As complicated as it may sound, FTP is really just another way to see the files on your website server (remote site) and transfer files between your local site (your PC) and your website. This section of videos takes you through some fundamentals of Windows based file management and USB drives and onto more advanced file management by logging onto our website and transferring files to it using a freely downloadable FTP application.

Internet Beginners – Download and install Google chrome browser
Internet Beginners – Download and install FileZilla FTP software
Windows File Management, C drive and USB drives
Windows File Management, C drive and USB drives – viewing image files part 1
Windows File Management, C drive and USB drives – viewing image files part 2
Windows File Management, C drive and USB drives – selecting & moving files
Windows File Management and FileZilla – remote and local sites
Themes and FTP – Finding and downloading WordPress premium themes – SimplePress
Themes and FTP – Installing a Theme from Elegant Themes using WordPress
Themes and FTP – Using FTP to move files to a website hosting account and install a theme

Backing up your WordPress website (8)

Backups are a type of insurance that you won’t have to spend time and money to fix a problem if you webserver crashes or you lose any information in your website. It’s important to backup your website when performing tasks like upgrading the version of WordPress you are using or to be able to use certain plugins and themes.

WordPress Backup and Upgrade – Upgrading your WordPress to the latest version
WordPress Backup and Upgrade – Backing up your WordPress Data

Features of Premium Themes (9)

Theme Clubs like Elegant Themes create premium WordPress themes that you can then customise for your own business website. The greatest benefit of working with an organisation like Elegant Themes is their level of support. It is important to realise that the WordPress system goes through constant improvement and as new features are added themes need to be updated. Support provides you with information and assistance when you are trying to implement your theme and its features on your website.

Getting Google Analytics code into your WordPress site
Modifying the Navigation menu in Simple Press and other Elegant themes using the epanel
Inserting Logo and Favicon at your WordPress site
Activating the Featured Post feature
Home Page Features for Premium Themes

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WordPress Advanced Training Course 904 – Administration, Users, Design and Backup