Advanced WordPress Site Management

This capstone unit covers advanced administration, optimization, security, plugin/theme management, and e-commerce/multimedia integration for WordPress sites. Students will configure caching and sitemaps, secure and migrate sites, manage networks and plugins, and evaluate plugin choices to produce production-ready websites.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze plugin and theme options (including free vs. commercial and third-party sources) to select solutions that meet functional, security, and budgetary requirements for a given project.
• Apply optimization and maintenance techniques — such as WP Super Cache, image/post thumbnail support, Google XML Sitemaps, and general performance best practices — to improve site speed, SEO visibility, and reliability and document the results.
• Demonstrate configuring, securing, and migrating WordPress sites by setting plugin options, installing and uninstalling plugins, using security tools (e.g., Sucuri), stopping spam signups, managing networks, and moving a site to a new host in a lab or portfolio task.
• Evaluate and implement e-commerce and multimedia features (e.g., WooCommerce, podcast/audio embedding) and verify functionality, accessibility, and compliance with open-source licensing and best practices.