Prerequisites: Intro to WordPress: The Easy Way to Build Websites OR Build Your Online Store Using WordPress + HTML & CSS + PHP Introduction or Equivalent

Building on basic WordPress knowledge, this course dives into theme development so that you can have greater control over your WordPress website's look and feel.

In this course, we will create a child theme based on an existing parent theme in WordPress and change presentation, and styling of your website. Techniques of good development workflow will be illustrated.

This is a code heavy course and students must have the skills of HTML & CSS along with basic PHP to fully take advantage of this course.

Content:

• Interacting with a WordPress website via FTP
• Explore the impact of HTML and CSS in WordPress themes
• Explore the structure of a WordPress theme
• Understand different categories of themes and picking a parent theme
• Creating and activating a basic WordPress child theme
• Using the developer tools to modify the child theme
• Adding templates to allow for variations on page design
• Adding custom menus to the child theme and/or a template
• Adding Custom Post Types to allow for better information organization
• Import code "snippets" into WordPress to change / add functionality

Courses subsidized by Emploi-Québec

Eligibility:

You are eligible to take these courses if you are:

• a seasonal worker who is not currently working, but retains ties with his/her employer;
• self-employed;
• overqualified for the position you currently hold and the course is relevant to your area of study.

You are not eligible to take these courses if you are:

• employed in the public or para-public sector;
• a full-time student;
• unemployed and/or receiving employment insurance or welfare;
• receiving CSST (worker's compensation) from the SAAQ.

Maximum of two (2) courses per person.
Maximum of three (3) registrations per establishment.