WordPress Web DevelopmentLaajuus (10 cr)

Objective

The goal of this course is for the student to be familiar with WordPress as a web development environment. After passing this course, the student will have sufficient skills to implement simple WordPress themes and plugins.

Content

• Installing and using WordPress. • The basics of themes, plugins and widgets. • The most common WordPress functions. • Creating own functions and attaching them to hooks. • Displaying posts and pages in a theme. • Adding menus and sidebars to a theme. • Creating custom queries for posts / pages and categories. • Basics of responsiveness with CSS media queries and jQuery. • Creating a custom plugin. • Adding a custom post type and taxonomy. • Implementing shortcodes. • Creating a widget.

Qualifications

The basics of HTML/CSS and PHP programming.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student understands how WordPress works as a web development environment and puts everything they have learned to practice in the course projects. Both projects and exams have been completed successfully.