After the success of the VIP Workshop, our intensive developer conference for select VIP clients and partners, we consistently heard from our clients that they wanted more VIP training options, and more often.
We’re answering that call by launching WordPress.com VIP Training Days, our one-day intensive courses which will be held in-person and, in the future, also online. These courses will focus on small groups of students with hands-on material led by several Automattic and WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner instructors. The course will be very interactive and full of practical information & exercises, and students will have the opportunity to ask questions during the course as well.
Read on for more information about our two inaugural courses, which will take place in October in San Francisco.
VIP Training Days – San Francisco, October 2013
Superuser Training - October 14th – $600 course fee.
Developer Fundamentals I Training - October 15th, $850 course fee.
Note: All transportation, transfer, and lodging costs will be the responsibility of each student, as well as any other expenses not explicitly stated. Lunch will be provided. Payment is required to confirm registration.
Register for the Developer Fundamentals I training, or the Superuser training in San Francisco in October, or read on for more information about each course’s curriculum and prerequisites.
If you’re interested in VIP training and can’t make it to the San Francisco dates, you can register your interest and let us know your location preferences (no commitment required). It’s possible we’ll add more dates or locations in the future.
Register now!
Developer Fundamentals I Training
Description
WordPress Fundamentals I is a day-long, intensive course meant to introduce PHP developers to programming for WordPress. Attendees should be familiar with WordPress as a tool, and have a working understanding of its general terminology. Proficiency with PHP is also a must, but no knowledge of the WordPress code itself is expected.
Prerequisites
Proficiency with basic PHP development.
Awareness of WordPress as a platform, including common terminology such as a post, a page, widgets, and sidebars.
A local development environment running WordPress Trunk. We will provide a virtual machine ahead of time for participants who don’t have their own development environments, but they will be responsible for setting it up ahead of time.
Course Materials & Requirements
Each student will provide their own computer (laptop) for the course, with working wifi functionality. A lunch break and light lunch will be provided by WordPress.com VIP. Students should have a local working copy of WordPress trunk installed and tested prior to the training. To download trunk: http://wordpress.org/download/svn/
Curriculum Overview
Intro to WordPress core, SVN, and Trac, history and culture
Developer environment and debugging tools
WordPress Development Best Practices
Introduction to Plugins
Actions and filters
Introduction to Themes
The Loop & WP_Query
More on themes
…and more!
Superuser Training
Description
In this course, you’ll learn how to manage and use the WordPress interface from a site owner’s point of view; as someone who will be managing multiple users, their permissions, and ultimately sharing knowledge with them about how to use WordPress to publish a great site with an active community and/or audience. We like to think of this course as our teachers teaching your teachers – those who will serve as the WordPress expert in an organization.
We’ll also do a deep dive into the publishing process so our superusers can teach their editors, authors, and contributors how to best use the WordPress interface. From creating and publishing posts to managing tags and categories, from mastering multimedia and images in articles, and bulk management of posts and pages, we’ll cover the entire publishing process from draft to done.
Prerequisites
Users should have a working (beyond basic) knowledge of the WordPress administration panel / backend. They should be managers, administrators, or editors of an existing or future WordPress site with multiple users.
Course Materials & Requirements
Each student will provide their own laptop computer (no tablets) for the course, with working wifi functionality. A lunch break and light lunch will be provided by WordPress.com VIP to all students. For the purposes of the course, students will be given access to a WordPress.com site. Users will be requested to create a WordPress.com username if they don’t have one, and this username will be submitted to the course instructor. To create a WordPress.com username: http://en.wordpress.com/signup/
Curriculum Overview
User Management: roles, permissions, and invitations
User Profiles: settings, preferences, and Gravatars
Comments: moderation, spam, and notifications
Creating & Publishing posts
Managing tags and categories
Mastering Media: images, galleries, and slideshows
Bulk management of Posts and Pages
…and more!
Register for the Developer Fundamentals I training, or the Superuser training in San Francisco in October!
Refunds
We’ll provide a full refund if the cancellation is requested within 30 days from the event date, and 50% thereafter. No refunds will be provided for cancellations 5 days before the event.
Register now!