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WordPress Advanced Theme Customisation 1 Day - London
Key Course Details:
Level:
Advanced
Duration:
1
Day - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£249 + vat
Take your WordPress knowledge to the next level as you join us to explore the advanced features of custom themes and plug-ins. Learn the tips and techniques that will help make your site or blog stand out.
Our advanced course will help you understand the underlying structure that controls WordPress sites, and will give you the know-how you need to use loops, plug-ins, and themes. We will show you how to enhance navigation, assign permissions to users, and attract people interested in your content. This is the perfect way to enhance your knowledge of managing a CMS-based site or blog.
Take your WordPress knowledge to the next level as you join us to explore the advanced features of custom themes and plug-ins. Learn the tips and techniques that will help make your site or blog stand out.
Our advanced course will help you understand the underlying structure that controls WordPress sites, and will give you the know-how you need to use loops, plug-ins, and themes. We will show you how to enhance navigation, assign permissions to users, and attract people interested in your content. This is the perfect way to enhance your knowledge of managing a CMS-based site or blog.
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WordPress Advanced Theme Customisation 1 Day
Course Details
This 1-day Advanced course takes your existing knowledge of WordPress and enhances it with expert skills for theme customisation and attractive web design. Together, we will discuss the techniques used to maintain a fully featured website or blog. We will take a deep look at how themes work, including the use of template tags and conditional tags, as well as the all-important WordPress Loop. You will also learn how to download, activate, and deactivate WordPress plug-ins. Plus, we will show you what to look out for when searching for a good plug-in.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Customise your site with advanced themes
- Inspect and manipulate the WordPress Loop
- Apply tags
- Create custom navigation menus
- Assign user roles and permissions
- Activate plug-ins that enable enhanced features
- Attract visitors with correct SEO approach for adding title, alt and image names
Our goal is for you to be able to enhance your existing WordPress installations by improving the form and function of your sites and blogs.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is designed for current users of WordPress looking to enhance their skills and build amazing-looking, accessible websites and blogs.
You will need basic experience in using WordPress. Ideally, you will have taken our WordPress Essentials Introduction 1 Day course.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Detailed Wordpress Theme Overview- Anatomy of a Wordpress Theme
- How Themes work
- Template files
- Typical Template files/folders included in a Theme
- The Wordpress Loop
- The Functions File
- Template Tags
- Conditional Tags
- Choosing a Wordpress Theme to modify
- Category Templates
- The Template Hierarchy
- Understanding what to look for in plug-ins
- How to view plug-in files with the editor and read the TXT files for instructions
- Downloading and activating plug-ins
- De-activating and deleting plug-ins
Security and Login- Admin roles and permissions
- Security with Wordpress
- Creating custom menus
- Upgrading a Wordpress Theme
- Theme compatibility with Wordpress Upgrades
- Theme compatibility with Plug-in
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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WordPress Advanced 1 Day - Upcoming London Course Dates
19 Nov - 19 Nov £249 + vat 23 Jan - 23 Jan £249 + vat 20 Mar - 20 Mar £249 + vat 22 May - 22 May £249 + vat 17 Jul - 17 Jul £249 + vat -
Client Reviews
"Well paced. I would recommend the course for anyone who is starting with WordPress"
Bob King, Department of Health, WordPress - 2 Day Introduction
"The course was packed with information and insider tips I would never have known about without attending. I'm brimming with information!"
Lucy Lund, Getty Images, WordPress - 3 Day Masterclass with SEO Optimisation
"Very good and extremely informative. Complicated enough to be challenging yet explained well enough to not put me off. Thanks!"
Will Jobbins, Freelance, WordPress - 2 Day Introduction
"The course was well structured and the small class size was great. The tutor managed to tailor it to our needs too which was great."
Jessica Croome, The Creative Clinic, WordPress - 1 Day Advanced
"Great course - very useful. Excited about using what we've learnt and applying it to the content I'm currently working on/creating..."
Jim Ottewill, PRS For Music, WordPress - 2 Day Introduction
"Excellent course. I have a better understanding of WordPress and feel confident to make greater use of it by improving the website my company currently has. I only booked a one day course but will certainly consider booking the second day at a later stage."
Angela Russell, Decision Lab, WordPress - 1 Day Introduction
"Great content and excellent instructor - really useful course."
Heather Grimes, FMC, WordPress - 1 Day Introduction
"I have moved from a complete novice to setting up my own WordPress blog following the 2 day Masterclass - amazing!"
Jill Pilling, Bishop Bridgeman School, WordPress - 2 Day Introduction
"Excellent course, I picked up a lot of information and tips which will be really useful. "
Stephen Baldwin, NRL, WordPress - 2 Day Introduction
"Good vibe, small classes overall very good."
Adam Donovan, Dental Design, WordPress - 1 Day Advanced
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Over 15 years of providing certified WordPress training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
The trainer was excellent, very supportive and ensured I have a good understanding of the content.
22/08/2024
4/5 Stars
Once again (I've been before), I found that I was exposed to a huge amount of information in a very short time - all excellent, but I do need to go away and work through the material slowly in my own time.
22/08/2024
5/5 Stars
Course was exactly what I was looking for and covered everything I wanted to know about Wordpress. Will was a very knowledgable tutor and understood what I wanted to achieve. Overall very glad I went for the course as it has set me up to continue with Wordpress with confidence.
06/08/2024
5/5 Stars
great two days of excellent content, knowledge and experience
20/06/2024
5/5 Stars
Kevin explained all the things I needed to know and demonstrated them to me. I feel I've made real progress after weeks of guesswork
26/02/2024
4/5 Stars
Course was very helpful, Tim had great knowledge of Wordpress and SEO.
24/02/2024
5/5 Stars
Overall the training experience was amazing, quick and easy to understand, trainer was helpful and answered all questions asked and explained everything well and in detail.
23/02/2024
5/5 Stars
Very happy
23/02/2024
4/5 Stars
Very informative and helpful
23/02/2024
5/5 Stars
The only slight feedback is that every once in a while the audio was a tiny bit laggy, apart from that the course was brilliant. Tim had extensive knowledge on every field we asked him about. There is no feedback I could give about the actual course because I learned so much. I will definitely be booking on to the advanced course soon.
23/02/2024
5/5 Stars
Very useful and informative - Kevin was a great coach and i learnt a lot. Lunch could be longer
18/01/2024
5/5 Stars
Definitely understand the fundamentals of WordPress more, the course was great! Will be great to take this knowledge back to the job and apply it to our website.
18/01/2024
5/5 Stars
The course has been very helpful for me, as I was completely clueless with wordpress and what plugins are useful but now I think I can use it and then slowly further my knowledge
18/01/2024
5/5 Stars
Will really helped get my website up and running in a suitably content focused manner.
14/12/2023
5/5 Stars
Will was able to specify the content of the training to my requirements due to no. of attendees. His knowledge was 1st class and allowed myself to be in control of the practical side which helped me to better understand the Wordpress platform.
10/08/2023
5/5 Stars
I realise that we are only just scratching the surface of planning, designing and building a website and that many, many more hours are needed. That said an excellent base to venture forward.
16/03/2023
5/5 Stars
It was so refreshing to have a trainer keen to help and go that extra mile. In the past I've had bad experiences with web developers/designers which brought me to wanting to learn myself - not necessarily to implement myself but to empower me with the knowledge to know what's possible and what's not. My saying is "if you don't know what you don't know, how do you know what to ask?". Tim's honesty and experience has given me the knowledge and empowered me to ask questions I didn't realise I should be asking a web developer/designer, and to know when they can't be bothered, don't have the skills they said they have, or charging too much. I now know where to find what I need, how to change things, how much time things should take, and what's possible. Everyone should do this course whether they want to design/develop themselves or outsource. Knowledge is power!
16/02/2023
5/5 Stars
Does training come with a manual?
18/11/2022
5/5 Stars
I really enjoyed this informative course. The tutor was engaging and read my needs well. He was also very patient when I was being stupid! Thanks again.
05/10/2022
5/5 Stars
A very comprehensive course that was tailored to the needs of the attendees providing practical assistance that can be applied within the workplace.
04/08/2022
5/5 Stars
This was a very thorough and comprehensive course for WordPress, and it met my objectives of getting a greater understanding and ability to work with the platform in my workplace. Simon's experience and depth of knowledge as a skilled instructor were very much appreciated.
04/08/2022
5/5 Stars
Very clear and thorough
29/06/2022
4/5 Stars
very informative, as someone who had no knowledge of this, it is a lot of info to take on board, would be helpful to maybe have a set by step of the basics to email out or a bit more time to make some notes
22/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Really good training - very slow server speed and would crash when trying to upload some parts. Would make it easier for the trainer if this was improved. Trainer had very good knowledge. Would also be very helpful to use our versions of plugins - especially we dont use elementor - so some extra skills needed to use our own website
22/06/2022
4/5 Stars
Very instructive. However, I did get lost sometimes, trying to make a written note and missed a step. Really looking forward to playing with the programmes
22/06/2022
4/5 Stars
Very thorough and lots of information to take in. Lots to take away, and put in to practice, though so that is very positive
22/06/2022
5/5 Stars
Learnt such a lot in these two sessions on Wordpress, Tim was superb, explained everything really well and I will highly recommend him.
27/05/2022
5/5 Stars
it was very intellectual and educational
06/05/2022
5/5 Stars
The 2-day course is very comprehensive and enables the delegates to have different ideas to explore and build their own website using Wordpress.
31/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Tim was very knowledgeable on wordpress and on website design in general. He facilitated many interesting discussions during the course that weren't stictly part of the course content - I liked this flexibility of conversation. Xchange training were excellent in all coms and administrational reliability
31/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Tim is amazing. He provides a wealth of information and can help with every and any query.
04/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Very good course would be interested in amore advanced course if availbale later.
04/03/2022
5/5 Stars
Very good service all round, only issues really being with the equipment and the hosting speeds. That aside I can do all that I hoped to.
04/03/2022
4/5 Stars
It was a very well structured course, the instructor was great with help and support
03/03/2022
4/5 Stars
There was lots of useful information the instructor provided. Therefore some more written material would of been helpful (other than the where to find items pdf's). I made 9 A4 sized pages of notes over the 2 days so this is why I mention it. Tim was very knowledgeable. Thank you.
03/03/2022
5/5 Stars
The course was very comprehensive and covered the expected subjects and a bit more to boot. Tim was clear and patient and it was easy to ask questions as we went along. A couple of times I got a bit lost (during the coding element) and Tim was quick to take the time to re-explain what had been talked about, which quickly got me back on track. I was engaged for the entire 2 days and not once did I find the content or delivery irrelevant or boring. I was very pleased the training was recorded and this is a big bonus for me.
03/02/2022
5/5 Stars
Excellent, very comprehensive. Great structure and we serve me well moving forwards.
16/12/2021
5/5 Stars
course was well laid out and paced, flexible over work commitments which meant no lose of learning opportunities.
16/12/2021
5/5 Stars
The trainer, Will, was very good and provided an excellent insight and usage of Wordpress and associated plug ins. Highly recommended!
01/12/2021
5/5 Stars
Tim was very good and patient, we did a 1:1 session which was great.
15/09/2021
4/5 Stars
Covered all aspects that were expected from the course, with a few extra bits which were unexpected but very useful, for example SEO.
24/08/2021
4/5 Stars
It was a good experience, I learnt a lot in the 2 days I had in training and overall it was a good experience that will help me going forward with the knowledge I have gained from this training course.
19/08/2021
4/5 Stars
i feel i learnt the basics
15/06/2021
4/5 Stars
Tim the instructor was very informative and provided clear and easy to follow instructions and training. He answered any questions with knowledge and experience of his own.
15/06/2021
5/5 Stars
Compact course with all basic knowledge and understanding of functions covered so that we can utilise ourselves. Instructor had great knowledge and went at a good pace whilst explaining aspects in depth.
15/06/2021
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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