Study Guide

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.

Prerequisites

The basics of HTML/CSS and PHP programming.