WordPress Web Development (10 cr)
Code: C-10065-TT00FD34-3016
General information
- Enrollment
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05.08.2024 - 31.12.2025
Registration for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
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05.08.2024 - 31.12.2026
Implementation is running.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 10 cr
- Local portion
- 10 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Institution
- Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Karaportti 2
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 5000
- Course
- C-10065-TT00FD34
Evaluation scale
Hyväksytty/Hylätty
Content scheduling
Depends on the student's baseline.
Objective
The goal of this course is for the student to be familiar with WordPress as a web development environment. After passing this course, the student will have sufficient skills to implement simple WordPress themes and plugins.
Content
• Installing and using WordPress. • The basics of themes, plugins and widgets. • The most common WordPress functions. • Creating own functions and attaching them to hooks. • Displaying posts and pages in a theme. • Adding menus and sidebars to a theme. • Creating custom queries for posts / pages and categories. • Basics of responsiveness with CSS media queries and jQuery. • Creating a custom plugin. • Adding a custom post type and taxonomy. • Implementing shortcodes. • Creating a widget.
Location and time
Course can be done in own pace in Metropolia's Moodle environment.
Materials
Online
Teaching methods
Course is 100% online (self-study) course.
Employer connections
N/A
Exam schedules
Online.
Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development
N/A
Completion alternatives
N/A
Student workload
Depends on the student's baseline.
Evaluation methods and criteria
The student understands how WordPress works as a web development environment and puts everything they have learned to practice in the course projects. Both projects and exams have been completed successfully.
Qualifications
The basics of HTML/CSS and PHP programming.