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Advanced WordPress

Instructor: Pepper O’Neal. Now that you have your website or blog set up, it’s time to get creative. This course will focus on advanced customizing of WordPress sites. It will include: troubleshooting your site when it crashes, creating custom themes and child themes, allowing users, allowing subscribers, importing and exporting content from different sources, creating user-friendly permalinks, search engine optimization, using the WordPress community forum, and creating a webhost server on your home computer that is not connected to the internet so that you can test ideas in a risk-free environment. The class will last four weeks.

LESSON PLAN 

1. Setting Up WP on Your Home Computer: Working with Local Host

2. Working with Menus, Parent & Child Pages

3. Understand and Creating Custom Widgets

4. Working with Child Themes

5. Keeping Your WP Installation Current and Backing Up WP

6. Troubleshooting: What to Do if You Crash Your Site

7. Importing & Exporting Content with a WP Site

8. Writing Content and Optimizing Your Site for Search Engines.

WHEN:    Sep 10, 2012 - Oct 7, 2012

COST:   $15 for Premium Members
$25 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

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Pepper O’Neal has a doctorate in education and has taught a number of adult education classes on many different subjects. She currently works as a freelance researcher and author. When she was told by both of her publishers that she needed to have a website, she realized she needed to finally join the age of technology. She also realized she had two options. She could pay someone to design the site for her, or she could to do it herself. As she hates depending on others for things involving her career, she decided to learn how to use the free web-design software WordPress and Joomla. She took classes, hired experts for tutors, and picked the brains of her web-designer friends. After designing her own websites, she decided she liked doing it, and now she designs websites for others.

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Questions or concerns may also be sent to workshops@savvyauthors.com.

Payment is due at the time of registration to guarantee your seat in the course. Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

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