This series will go over the complete design/development process from start to finish when building a Wordpress website for a client. We’ll start with the initial contract, discuss project discovery, site architect, design, prototype, development, testing, implementation, and on-going maintenance. A real deep dive in the entire business, creative and dev process for building a client website using Wordpress. This series of 4 courses is perfect for developers who are wanting to get into building marketing based Wordpress sites.  

Attendees are encourages to attend all 4 parts in order, however the sections are still valuble as stand alone sections if you can't make all 4.

Class 3: The Development Process

This class will go over the complete development process from start to finish when building a custom Wordpress website for a client. This will be a high level presentation on the complete development process, starting with one of the more popular Wordpress developer stacks. This course will go over how to properly set up a Wordpress development environment (with options for a  local development environment) and an overview of some of the more popular Wordpress plugins for developers. This class will also go over the popular tools used by professional Wordpress Developers and how to successfully launch and test your clients site.

• Dev Stack 

• Tools Used

• Setting up a WordPress site

• Developing a WordPress theme for a client website (high level)

• Setting up forms using gravity forms and other popular dev friendly plugins

• Creating a Custom Post Type plugin for managing unique/dynamic content types

• Managing site content with a quick Yoast SEO overview

• Site Testing

• Launching website