Planning Discussion for Tier 2: Leveling Up

Good morning, good folks of the Training Team!

In our meeting yesterday we began the discussion for our second quarter lessons. There is a list of the intended topics below for reference, so that everyone can chime in with ideas for specific lessons that are associated with these topics.

  • Basic troubleshooting
  • Intermediate troubleshooting
  • Plugins & Themes: where to find them and what to do with them
  • Modifying Code – child themes, customizing with css in jetpack (for simpler things that don’t need a whole new child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/., also bc it’s what is used on WC sites so they can contribute there), looking at pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party code

This post is for brainstorming lesson plans; no decisions will be made about what is included in this thread. 🙂