The document provides an overview of a WordPress training on plugins, widgets, themes and publishing. It includes goals for the training, exercises on installing and using plugins and widgets, a discussion of child themes and how to create one. It also covers the three steps to publishing a WordPress site: setting up the base, installing themes and plugins, and transferring data. The training concludes with a review game to solidify the concepts covered.

1. Sunday Funday:
Plugins, Widgets,
Customizing Themes,
Publishing

2. Today's Plan
● Plugins
● Widgets
● Themes and extension - "child themes"
● Review
Goals
● You will understand what widgets are and how to use them
● You will know the 'definition' of a plugin
● You'll have the basics of child themes down, and might
have one of your own!
● If we have time, we have a review game to solidify
concepts, or we can workshop

3. Plugins extend the
functionality of
WordPress.

5. Exercise: Plugins
Complete/Answer the following:
● Toggle the activation of the Hello Dolly plugin. What
does it do?
● Delete the Hello Dolly plugin. What are the two
components of deletion you're warned about?
● Go to Featured plugins and install and activate the
Theme Check plugin.
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● Add the Hello Dolly plugin back. You miss it.
● How can you find the lines that Hello Dolly
choses lyrics from?
● Search and add the WP PHP widget to your
site. Activate. [You'll have more to play with
in the Widgets exercise!]

6. Widgets are a form of plugin
that can add functionality to
different areas of your site,
without needing to code.

7. Exercise: Widgets
Complete/Answer the following:
● Use a widget in your site's theme
● How can you remove a widget but keep its settings?
● Can you use a widget more than once?
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● If you installed the PHP widget, play with
running "Hello World" PHP code in a widget
area
● Does the PHP widget support HTML?
● Change themes - did widget support change?
Widgets.

8. Lessons Learned
Can you ...
● Define what plugins (and widgets) do?
Are you ...
● Able to install and activate plugins?
Are you ...
● Able to customize your site with widgets?

9. Customizing
Themes, Publishing, &
Review

10. Customizing with Child Themes
● A Child Theme is a theme based on another
theme (the parent)
● It uses all components of the parent
theme unless you specify otherwise
● http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
^ This is very useful

11. Two Steps to a Child Theme
A folder and a style.css file

12. Child Theme Review
If file exists, use it. If not...
CHILD
PARENT
Go get it from the parent

13. Exercise: Child Themes
Make a Child Theme.
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● PLAY
(start customizing the theme!)

14. Exercise: Leveraging Your Child Theme
Complete/Answer the following:
● Create a 404 template.
○ Start by copying the code from the parent as an
example into your text editor
○ Edit it
○ Save as 404.php in your child theme
○ Go to a page that does not exist to test
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● Customize the archive or loop templates,
such as making the title a different HTML tag
... get creative!
● Can you figure out what "The Loop" is? (see
archive.php & content.php in twentyeleven)
Ask a TA to see how you did

15. Publishing Your Site in 3 Steps
1. Setup your base (WordPress)
2. Install your theme and plugins
3. Transfer your data

16. Publishing: 3 Steps
1. Setup your base (WordPress)
Host can take care of this (usually)
2. Install your theme and plugins
FTP!
3. Transfer your data
WordPress Export/Import

20. REVIEW TIME!
Jeopardy!

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22. First
WordPress, next
, the world!
(THANKS, EVERYBODY!)