WordPress Developer Diploma

Course details

WordPress Developer Diploma

Duration: 3 months
 
Assessment: One comprehensive practical assignment
Become a competent WordPress developer with this fully online, flexible diploma designed to provide you with the essential knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to build, customize, and maintain professional websites using WordPress. This course covers foundational to advanced topics, enabling you to manage various WordPress sites effectively, optimize for SEO, and extend functionality through plugins and themes.

Course Modules and Key Learnings:

1. WordPress Basics
   Understand the history, structure, and ecosystem of WordPress as a content management system (CMS) and website platform.
2. Setting Up the WordPress Software
   Learn how to install and configure WordPress, including hosting considerations, domain setup, and initial configurations.
3. Exploring the WordPress Dashboard
   Gain familiarity with the WordPress admin interface, content management workflows, user roles, and site settings.
4. Publishing Your Site with WordPress
   Master the process of creating and publishing pages, posts, media, menus, and managing site navigation.
5. Examining SEO and Social Media Integration
   Learn key SEO best practices within WordPress, including plugin usage and optimization, plus social media sharing tools to increase traffic and engagement.
6. Customizing the Look of Your Site
   Develop skills to select, install, and customize themes, understand template hierarchies, and apply styling using WordPress Customizer and CSS basics.
7. Using and Developing Plugins
   Explore how to install, configure, and troubleshoot plugins that extend site functionality, including an introduction to creating simple custom plugins.
8. Running Multiple Sites with WordPress Multisite
   Understand how to set up and manage a WordPress multisite network to run multiple websites from a single installation efficiently.

Assessment:
Your practical ability to design, build, customize, and optimize WordPress websites will be assessed through one comprehensive assignment. Students may begin their assignments immediately and complete the diploma flexibly upon submission.
 
  Updated on 31 July, 2025