WordPress App Development (10 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student knows Basics of WordPress Content Management System Function and can implements a simple WordPress layout theme and add-on.

Content

- Installing and using the WordPress Content Management System.
- Operating principles of themes, add-ons and frenzy.
- The most common WordPress platform ready functions.
- Attaching your own functions to hooks.
- Displaying articles and pages in a theme.
- Implementation of menus and frenzy slots in the theme.
- Own Article and Category Inquizations implementation of the platform with tools.
- Theme formatting responsive with CSS stylesheets and Javascript's jQuery library.
- Registering your own add-on in Control View
- Defining your own article type and taxonomy.
- Implementation of shortcodes.
- Implementation of the Grenzy.

Prerequisites

Basics of HTML/CSS- and PHP Programming.

Teaching methods

100% online (self-study) course which can be done in own pace.

Location and time

Course can be done in own pace and course environment is Metropolia's Moodle.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Online.

Alternative completion methods of implementation

N/A

Internship and working life connections

N/A

Exam dates and retake possibilities

Online.

International connections

N/A

Student workload

Depends on the student's baseline.

Content scheduling

Students can complete the course as they wish.

Further information for students

ENROLMENTS

Open UAS Stuents via https://hakija.oma.metropolia.fi

CampusOnline Students via campusonline.fi

Metropolia's Degree Students
Go to https://moodle.metropolia.fi/course/view.php?id=4078
Enrolment key: wordpress

Assessment methods and criteria

Pass/Fail when Students have achieved course objectives.

Student understands how the WordPress Content Management System works from the perspective of the application developer and can apply what they learned in the course to their own theme and add-on in the implementation of.

Student has completed both exercises in the course and both Exams acceptably.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass/Fail when Students have achieved course objectives.

Student understands how the WordPress Content Management System works from the perspective of the application developer and can apply what they learned in the course to their own theme and add-on in the implementation of.

Student has completed both exercises in the course and both Exams acceptably.