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WordPress for Advanced Users LiveLessons / LeMasney, John.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
LeMasney, John, author.
Series:
LiveLessons
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Web site development.
Web sites--Design.
Web sites.
WordPress (Electronic resource).
Genre:
Electronic videos.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 2 hr., 58 min.)
Edition:
1st edition
Place of Publication:
Sams, 2015.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
Almost 3 Hours of Video Instruction The advanced, hands-on video guide to WordPress.org: Create amazingly powerful, fully customized sites with your own WordPress instance! Description These easy video tutorials take you far beyond the basics with WordPress, showing how to build cutting-edge sites that are uniquely yours! WordPress for Advanced Users LiveLessons walks you through setting up your own instance of WordPress.org, installing your own plugins, editing themes, and setting up entire networks of WordPress sites. Top WordPress expert John LeMasney takes you under the hood with WordPress, giving you the strong technical understanding you need to make themes, plugins, and methods work exactly the way you want. LeMasney demonstrates three leading approaches to installing WordPress.org, explaining when to use each. He shows how to migrate content from WordPress.com to WordPress.org; use child themes to customize look-and-feel while maintaining stability; integrate reliable, well-supported plugins, from JetPack to custom map and video solutions; transform WordPress into a social network with BuddyPress; add Google Calendar widgets, automatic publicity, stronger security, content restrictions, and even e-commerce. In just four hours, you learn how to build outstanding sites that unleash the full power of WordPress! About the Instructor John LeMasney is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist who helps people use technology to improve their lives, work, and world. For more than 20 years, he has consulted on technology, design, communication, and branding for academia, the enterprise, libraries, and consumers. He teaches at Rider University's Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program, as well as at Princeton Public Library, Princeton Adult School, Library Link NJ, and other venues. He was previously Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University. He created the WordPress for Beginners LiveLessons video tutorial. Skill Level Intermediate Advanced What You Will Learn Set up your own local WordPress.org instance in the way that’s best for you Use child themes to control look and feel without compromising stability Choose well-executed, well-supported plugins and refine their behavior Build and centrally control whole networks of WordPress sites Transform WordPress into a social network with BuddyPress Overcome common issues with WordPress.o...
Participant:
Presenter, John LeMasney.
Notes:
Online resource; Title from title screen (viewed May 31, 2015)
Title from resource description page (viewed May 20, 2015)
Date of publication taken from resource description page.
OCLC:
910169257

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