WordPress Level 1 for End Users

Learn to confidently manage and create content on WordPress, the world's leading blogging platform, perfect for new bloggers and CMS novices.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand pages, posts, menus, plugins, and widgets

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Set up user accounts, admin settings, and menus

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Categorize posts effectively

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Utilize the media library to manage images and galleries

Format

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

Audience

  • Bloggers new to WordPress
  • CMS Beginners
  • Web Content Creators
  • Small Business Owners

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, as a content provider and end user.

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Course Outline

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Introducing WordPress

  1. Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com

  2. Anatomy of a WordPress Site

  3. Deciding on a WordPress Host

Getting Familiar

  1. Overview of How WordPress Works

  2. A quick WordPress Installation Overview

  3. The Dashboard

  4. Upgrading WordPress

WordPress Settings

  1. General Settings

  2. Writing, Reading, Discussion and Media Settings

  3. Permalinks

Managing Account Settings

  1. Understanding WordPress account roles

  2. Working as a WordPress team

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. Using Widgets

  2. Adding and 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 a Menu to Your Site

Working with Media

  1. Using the Media Library

  2. Editing Images

  3. Creating Image Galleries

Managing Comments

  1. Enabling and Disabling Comments

  2. Moderating Comments

  3. Fighting Spam

Best Practices

  1. Search Engine Optimization

  2. Setting Up a Sitemap Backing Up Your Data and Files

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