WordPress Theme Showdown 2020
An Online Training Workshop
Tuesday June 23 – Wednesday June 24
@ 1:00 – 4:00 PM (CT)
Take a Deep Dive Into 3 Leading WordPress Themes
WordPress Themes can be a little intimidating. These days, there are all sorts of different ways to build a website. You’ve got page builders, block editors, themes and even plugins that can help you get the site of your dreams.
GeneratePress
Kadence Theme
Astra
How do you know which theme to use? Do you know all that your theme can do that doesn’t require an extra plugin you installed? Should you use the same theme for every project? How do you handle knowing which theme to use when?
In this theme showdown, we’re going to take a deep dive into two popular themes and one up and coming theme. We’ll break down how and why you should use these themes. We’ll go into some of the specific features of each theme and build a site together.
By the end of this webinar series, you’ll get to experience 3 leading WordPress themes and the knowledge you can use to build your next website. You’ll learn what these themes can do, and how you can use them to their full potential.
Course Schedule
Day 1
Introduction to GeneratePress & Kadence Theme
Day 2
Advanced Kadence Theme & Introduction to Astra
Day 1: GeneratePress & Kadence Theme
Have you used GeneratePress? If not, we’re going to take a deep dive into all the exciting features.
Agenda:
- Introduction to GeneratePress Pro
- Overview of GeneratePress
- Checking out the Site Library
- Understanding Elements
- Understanding Sections
- Building Your Blog
- Building Advanced Menus
During the last hour, we’ll switch gears to the Kadence theme. The Kadence theme is marked as a next generation theme and it’s definitely pretty exciting, especially when you use it with the new WordPress block editor. In the last hour this day, we’ll start covering some of the capabilities of the Kadence theme.
Agenda:
- Overview of Kadence Theme
- Navigating the Header and Footer system
- Building Headers
- Building Footers
- Navigating the Customizer
- Building a Site
Day 2: Kadence Theme & Astra
Today, we’ll look at the Kadence Theme and finalize our site build. We’ll be putting the final touches on it and setting up some of the advanced settings of Kadence Theme along with looking at the Kadence Blocks plugin to finish building your site.
Agenda:
- Building your Home page
- Building the About page
- Building the Blog
- Building a Contact page
During our last two hours we’ll look at Astra. Astra is a great professional theme that allows you a ton of customization options while giving you the power and flexibility of a performance centric theme. We’ll explore the options available and build a quick site.
Agenda:
- Overview of Astra
- Intro to Headers
- Intro to Footers
- Advanced Header/Footer Options
- Design Options
- Building a Site
Course Highlights
6 hours of online training in live webinar replay format
Downloadable replay videos to watch at your convenience
The entire workshop chat log
Course slides and resources
Learn With a Leading WordPress Expert & Educator
About AJ Morris
AJ has spent 10 years developing, launching and maintaining WordPress websites. Using a number of development processes and tactics over the years, AJ is ready to share with you his preferred process, perfected over the years. He’ll share with you a number of new ways to think about WordPress development, as well as share some old favorites from the previous WordPress Developer Course.
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- Slide deck and webinar chat log
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