Introduction Per Thykjær Jensen Project Manager and Senior Lecturer Business Academy Aarhus Research and Innovation Phone: +45 7228 6321 petj@eaaa.dk On the internet, about one in four pages are “powered by WordPress”. "WordPress in the Classroom” is in two parts. The first part will give you knowledge about WordPress, and the second is an introduction to WordPress frontend development: • Part One: Making Word- Press Here you will find an introduction to the history and the open source philosophy behind WordPress. Part one will give an idea of the creative process behind the Twenty Seventeen theme. This part is an answer to the question: What should the upcoming WordPress professional know in order to meet the demands of business? • Part Two: Diving into Themes The second part focuses on WordPress frontend development. You will learn how to create your own design either from scratch or tweak an existing theme by a child theme. Part two will also introduce some new trends in WordPress frontend development such as Nodejs features and command line tools. The book is the output from a research project at the Research and Innovation department at Business Academy Aarhus. The project was initiated by an increasing number of students used WordPress in their projects, or having to work with WordPress during internships. This observation led to the research question: what should the multimedia student know about WordPress in order to meet the demands of future 6
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