WordPress is well known for its user friendliness, but it's often not seen as very developer friendly. Out of the box, it doesn't necessarily promote modern, stable development practices, but that doesn't mean you can't bring these techniques and approaches to WordPress. This talk outlines one possible deployment workflow while covering the basic concepts of development/staging/production environments, version control and a few command line tools. We'll cover database migrations and keeping dependencies (like plugins, themes, and WordPress itself) up to date.

This is a beginner's WordPress overview that teaches students how to setup and manage a basic, self-hosted WordPress website. The course covers the following: -What is WordPress? Choosing a host & Installing WordPress -Overview of the Dashboard and editors; publishing your first post -Selecting, installing, tweaking a theme -Managing Pages, Custom menus, and moderating comments -Plugins - installing, activating, using; overview of Jetpack plugin and features, overview of other popular plugins and how to use -Adding/managing picture galleries, video, and sound