2014
Lynda
Joseph Lowery
5:48
English

WordPress offers powerful content management for your website while Dreamweaver CC enables easy design and coding–a potent combination. In this course, you'll explore how to integrate WordPress into a Dreamweaver site, allowing you to edit and expand your code with Dreamweaver's native tools. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to take WordPress themes to the next level, using CSS customization and jQuery widgets. He also covers how to make your pages responsive to tablet and phone layouts, and develop category-driven layouts. Finally, you'll investigate how to extend WordPress with plugins, style them with Dreamweaver, and get your finished website online using Dreamweaver's publishing and testing tools.

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
Development environment requirements
A word about updates
1. Setting Up WordPress
Overview
Setting up the database and the initial site
Setting up WordPress
Establishing the Dreamweaver CC site
2. Exploring Your WordPress Site in Dreamweaver CC
Accessing dynamically related files
Filtering files
Following links
Employing Live Code
Enabling site-specific code hinting
3. Creating Content
Adding blog posts
Editing blog posts
Adding new pages
Including images
Integrating other media
4. Working with WordPress Themes
Understanding WordPress structure
Activating a theme
Setting up a child theme
5. Customizing a Theme
Updating page structure and the background
Setting up the header
Working with web fonts
Adding header images
Linking your navigation
Setting up content columns
Changing the main content
Managing the content code
Customizing the sidebar
Styling search
Working with search text
Integrating the footer
6. Providing Responsive Design
Setting up media queries
Customizing for tablets
Building smartphone layouts
7. Extending WordPress Editable Pages
Working with categories and posts
Developing category-driven pages
Changing headers by category
8. Enhanced JavaScript with WordPress
Adding jQuery UI accordion panels
Styling jQuery UI accordion panels
9. Using WordPress Plugins
Understanding WordPress plugins
Styling plugin output
10. Extending the User Experience
Customizing the Dashboard
Working with WordPress functions
Including administration interactivity
11. WordPress Administration
Modifying general settings
Setting up users
Restricting access to specific WordPress pages
12. Publishing Your WordPress Site
Exporting and importing WordPress files
Backing up and restoring the database
Transferring files
Testing and fine-tuning
Goodbye
Next steps

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