WordPress Web Development (10 ECTS)
Code: TT00FD34-3013
General information
- Timing
- 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025
- Implementation is running.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 10 ECTS
- Virtual portion
- 10 ECTS
- Mode of delivery
- Online
- Unit
- School of ICT and Industrial Management
- Campus
- Karaportti 2
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 1000
- Degree programmes
- Information and Communication Technology
- Teachers
- Damien Kuosmanen
- Virve Prami
- Teacher in charge
- Janne Salonen
- Groups
-
ATX25TVNonStop virtual studies year 2025
- Course
- TT00FD34
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.
Location and time
Course can be done in own pace in Metropolia's Moodle environment.
Materials
Online
Teaching methods
Course is 100% online (self-study) course.
Employer connections
N/A
Exam schedules
Online.
International connections
N/A
Completion alternatives
N/A
Student workload
Depends on the student's baseline.
Content scheduling
Depends on the student's baseline.
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
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.
Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Qualifications
The basics of HTML/CSS and PHP programming.