WordPress

Master the world's most popular content management system with our WordPress course, designed for aspiring bloggers and web administrators seeking to build, customize, and manage their own dynamic websites.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Install WordPress on a local environment for testing

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Understand blogs, pages, posts, menus, plugins, and widgets

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Set up user accounts, admin settings, and social media buttons

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Customize your site's header, footer, and sidebar areas

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • New Bloggers
  • CMS Beginners
  • Web Administrators
  • Aspiring Web Developers

Description

WordPress is a free, open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. With WordPress, you can add and edit web pages from anywhere you have an internet connection. With more than 60 million websites using WordPress, it has become the most popular blogging system in use on the Web. This class will get you started with WordPress, from a basic installation to customizing your first WordPress site.

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Course Outline

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Introducing WordPress

  1. Anatomy of a WordPress Blog

  2. Deciding on a WordPress Host

WordPress Setup

  1. Using an Installer

  2. Setting up the Database

  3. Installing WordPress

Getting Familiar

  1. Overview of How WordPress Works

  2. The Dashboard

  3. How to Upgrade WordPress

Settings

  1. General Settings

  2. Writing, Reading, Discussion, and Media Settings

  3. Permalinks

Managing Account Settings

Setting Up Your Theme

  1. The Default Theme

  2. Choosing a New Theme

  3. The Theme Customizer

  4. Custom Headers and Backgrounds

Widgets and Plugins

  1. Adding and Activating Plug-Ins

  2. Using Widgets

  3. Updating Plug-Ins

Content

  1. Adding Posts and Pages

  2. Editing Posts and Pages

  3. Using Categories and Tags

Menus

  1. Setting Up and Editing Menus

  2. Adding Menus to Your Site

Working With Media

  1. Using the Media Library

  2. Editing Images

  3. Creating Image Galleries

  4. Using Audio and Video Files

Managing Comments

  1. Enabling and Disabling Comments

  2. Moderating Comments

  3. Fighting Spam

Customizing Your Theme

  1. Using CSS to Customize the Theme

  2. Adding a Favicon

  3. The Functions File

Using Custom Content Types

Best Practices

  1. Search Engine Optimization

  2. Setting Up a Sitemap

  3. Backing Up Your Data and Files

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