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Provide shared access to files and resources within your organization by setting up an intranet website using WordPress. Ease of use, low maintenance, and high extensibility are just some of the reasons WordPress can work as an ideal tool for your company's internal file sharing needs. This course shows how to create an intranet site for your business. Planning, installation, setup, custom configuration, user administration, deployment, and maintenance are covered.

WooCommerce is one of the most popular and trusted ecommerce solutions around. Not just for WordPress but also for anyone who wants to set up a store. Making your theme match the rest of your WooCommerce website can help you create a more professional and trustworthy shopping experience and extend your brand online.

This course covers the fundamentals of building custom WooCommerce themes. Learn about using WooCommerce hooks, template overrides, PHP, and CSS to style the different store pages, and add custom imagery and icons to fit your branding. Author Patrick Rauland also introduces UX design techniques that encourage customers to buy, such as highlighting savings and adding social media icons for sharing.

By default WordPress has five post types (posts and pages are the most popular), organized using built-in taxonomies like categories and tags. However, you can extend the functionality of WordPress and display different types of content according to your own rules by creating custom post types and taxonomies. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to create a plugin for new post types and taxonomies, create new post types and taxonomies (hierarchal and nonhierarchal), and build templates that display the custom post types and taxonomies in new and effective ways.

Make your categories more fun to browse with these WordPress Developer Tips. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to add images to categories and tags and provide a more interesting user experience. These tutorials cover installing a plugin to include the basic functionality, adding the actual images, creating a child theme that displays the images, and, finally, creating and styling an index page that displays all of your categories in an elegant and easy-to-navigate way.

This installment of WordPress Developer Tips offers a simple, code-based method for tracking and displaying popular posts. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will help you build a custom plugin to track the popularity of posts, based on views, and then create a widget to display a list of the five most popular posts on the front page, or on any other widgetized area, of your WordPress site. This feature will help visitors discover more content on your site, and help site owners understand what posts are trending.

WordPress sites are prime targets for spam comments. Left unchecked, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam comments will bog down your database. Luckily, there are plugins like Akismet to help. And even when the volume is too large to be cleaned up with Akismet, you can use some smart, simple SQL commands to remove all the spam from your database in minutes. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how to perform both spam-sweeping steps in this course.

DRY development is "don't repeat yourself" development: a smart strategy for reusing code and reducing repetition, wherever possible. This short course shows how to put DRY development techniques into practice in your WordPress sites. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen introduces four techniques for DRY development in WordPress, and shows how they are used in both default themes and custom themes like Simone.

Find more information in the WordPress Developer Tips course.

There's a right way and a wrong way to add style sheets and JavaScript libraries and scripts to your WordPress themes. The right way takes advantage of the WordPress enqueue system, which prevents script and style conflicts. In this installment of WordPress Developer Tips, staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen introduces the two main functions for enqueuing: wp_enqueue_style() and wp_enqueue_script(0). He'll show how the functions work and how to adjust their parameters, as well as theoretical and practical examples of implementing them in themes. This course uses Simone, a theme developed especially for Morten's WordPress: Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores course, but you can use any theme or subtheme that you'd like.

This short installment of WordPress Developer Tips helps you use information architecture (IA) and the WordPress template hierarchy to build a cleaner and more effective design process. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to set up IA for your site, map IA to the template hierarchy, create a template map for your project, and match the map to your starter theme. Incorporating IA will help you put "function before form" and not only make the development process quicker and easier, but also result in better, more functional websites for your clients and users.

Welcome to another installment of WordPress Developer Tips. In this quick course, staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how to edit WordPress user accounts directly in the database with phpMyAdmin—bypassing WordPress entirely. This is a useful technique for managing large pools of users and troubleshooting unresponsive accounts. Dive in and learn how to reset passwords, change user names and roles, and remove users from the database altogether. But please note: this technique is recommended only if you can back up and restore your database (in case something goes wrong). If you need to brush up on backups, check out WordPress Plugins: Backing Up Your Site before you begin.

Beautiful typefaces shouldn't be restricted to print. Web fonts make a wide range of typography accessible to web designers and developers too. This course offers a coding strategy for integrating web fonts into your WordPress themes, from services including Google Fonts and Adobe Edge Web Fonts. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen also shows how to generate and apply a custom self-hosted font with Font Squirrel's font kit.

Leaving your WordPress site unsecured leaves you, your users, and your data vulnerable to attack. Luckily, with some basic site configuration, code updates, and free plugins, you can make an existing or brand-new WordPress site much more secure. Beginning with the basics (your backup/restore and password settings), author Jeff Starr explains how to harden WordPress by setting up user roles, configuring authentication keys, and setting proper file permissions. Plus, discover advanced WordPress security techniques to monitor user activity, implement a firewall, prevent spam, and block bots, and learn best practices for reporting vulnerabilities to WordPress and auditing your site.

If you want to use CSS, and less of it, when building WordPress themes or plugins, you should be using Sass. Sass is the adopted and widely supported CSS compiler for WordPress, which allows you to use variables, mixins, and nesting to write simpler code. In this course Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers practical workflows for incorporating Sass into the development of a WordPress theme, along with Grunt.js, a task runner that translates Sass code into browser-friendly CSS. First Morten walks the viewer through a full production setup, including implementation of version control, Grunt.js, Ruby, and Sass on Windows and Mac. Then he'll present practical workflows for developing a custom theme (based on the _s or Underscores theme) with Sass and shipping "pure CSS" versions to the public.

Note: This course doesn't teach Sass itself. To learn more about the language, watch CSS with LESS and Sass.

Do you want to build a website for your volunteer group, club, church, or other community organization? DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to create a website complete with an events calendar, forums for discussions, and contact and submission forms. Morten walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your community. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Build a website for your independent business in the same spirit you run it. DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to create a website complete with a contact form, social sharing buttons, front page slider, and a photo gallery. He walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new theme and customizing the appearance of your site to match your brand. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Build a great website for your restaurant with WordPress. You don't need a developer; learn to do it yourself (DIY) in these short, project-focused lessons from expert Morten Rand-Hendriksen. Morten walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right theme, to adding custom content and navigation, to using plugins to display menus and take reservations online. Using these tips, you'll be able to create a stylish, feature-rich website for your restaurant with very little overhead.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Want to build a website, without all the work? Do it yourself (DIY) with WordPress. This course helps you set up WordPress, choose a web host and connect to it via FTP, download and install WordPress, connect to a database, and make your first post. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen walks you through the first steps to creating and maintaining your very own WordPress website.

Ready for the next stage? Find more courses in this series by searching for Wordpress DIY.

Want to build a website to showcase your photography? Do it yourself (DIY) with WordPress. In this course, Morten Rand-Henriksen shows how to create a website for a photo business or personal use. He walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make your photos pop. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Ready for the next stage? Find more courses in this series by searching for Wordpress DIY.

Want to build a website for your small business? Do it yourself (DIY) with WordPress. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to create a website complete with a contact form, social sharing buttons, a booking/availability calendar, and a photo gallery. He walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new theme and customizing the appearance of your site to match your brand. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

Want to build a website for your wedding or other special event? Make a site for your occasion with these DIY (do-it-yourself) tips for WordPress. Morten Rand-Henriksen guides you through the entire process: planning the site layout and content, choosing and customizing a theme for exactly the right look, and using plugins to add special features like a hidden invite-only section, guestbook, and image gallery. Plus, get tips for testing and securing your content before launch.

Ready for the next stage? Find more courses in this series by searching for Wordpress DIY.

Want to build an online store? Build it with WordPress and take advantage of all the sophisticated plugins and rich development features the platform has to offer.

To start, you need to understand the market for your product or service so you can build your website around it. So Patrick Rauland kicks off with some key questions that will help you define your audience and organize your products. He'll then help you set up a payment gateway with PayPal or Stripe, ship orders, collect taxes, and secure sensitive data. And if you weren't convinced already, Patrick reviews the benefits of WordPress ecommerce tools as well as a selection of third-party tools that integrate beautifully with WordPress. Plus, get bonus tips on marketing your new website: attracting and retaining customers and increasing the value of the average order.

WordPress plus Easy Digital Downloads is the simple way to sell digital products like software, courses, and ebooks online. In this course, instructor Patrick Rauland takes you through the installation, configuration, and management of an online store selling digital products and services. Patrick shows how to navigate the tax, style, and email settings; add products; manage sales; and plug into external services like Google Analytics and MailChimp. Along the way, he shows how to leverage features that make the process of selling your digital goods even easier.

Learn how to build an online store using one of the most popular and trusted ecommerce solutions for WordPress. WooCommerce provides advanced store management for physical and digital products in a clean and easy-to-understand package. Simply put, WordPress + WooCommerce = your online shopping portal on your terms. Join WooCommerce expert Patrick Rauland as he shows how to use the plugin in conjunction with WordPress and also how to combine it with external services for payment processing and shipping. Learn how to navigate the inventory, tax, and shipping settings; add products; manage sales; and customize your store's layout. Plus, learn how to integrate external services like Google Analytics and MailChimp for customer analytics and email.

Discover how to manipulate the inner workings of WooCommerce to deliver customized WooCommerce stores. In this course, learn how to tailor the functionality of your online store to match your existing business practices by creating a plugin that interacts with WooCommerce. Join WooCommerce expert Patrick Rauland as he explains how to create a settings page, hide the checkout page, and customize the edit product page. Plus, he covers how to customize the WooCommerce checkout, add custom order statuses, and send automated updates to customers.

WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites. Learn how to create your own with this powerful publishing platform. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will help you get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress and create feature-rich blogs and websites. Morten explains how to create and publish posts and pages; customize your site with themes, widgets, and custom menus; and extend WordPress even further with plugins. Plus, learn how to get more readers with social media sharing and comments, and how to adjust the settings that keep your site safe and secure.

Note: This course covers WordPress 4.3. We will update the training as WordPress evolves.