WordPress Training
OFFER - 1 day £595 20% OFF! - now £476 for up to 8 people - at your premises
- Create a website in a day
- No software knowledge or coding needed
- Edit your own website - no need for a web designer
- Create an online shop, blog, creative portfolio
This WordPress training course shows you how to create a finished website in a day. As WordPress itself is FREE the price you pay is the price for a fully functioning website.
You will cover everything you need to know to get your site live online including installing WordPress and how to edit pages through your browser, phone or tablet once your website is online. No software or coding knowledge required.
The course comprises a series of hands-on, instructor-led workshops so that you get to grips with WordPress at your own speed, with expert guidance on hand at all times.
Whether you are a business, shop or interested creative individual, this training will provide the perfect way to create your website.
What you will achieve on the course:
• You will create a fully functioning professional-looking website
• You will learn how to add text, images, audio and video
• You will understand how to edit your pages through a browser, on the phone or tablet
• You will learn the important features of SEO and WordPress
(Search Engine Optimisation)
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Course Outline
WordPress Introduction
- What is WordPress?
- How to get hold of WordPress
WordPress hosting
- Domain name intro
- Hosting into
WordPress Installation
- One-click install
- Installing WordPress manually
Getting Started
- A tour of the Dashboard
- WordPress Settings
Adding Pages with text and images
- Posts vs Pages
- Categories and Tags
- Adding Text
- Adding Images
- How to write for the web
- Simple text formatting
Adding Media
- Adding Images and Image Galleries
- Cropping and resizing images in WordPress
- Image formats for the web
- Adding Video
- Adding Audio
Changing the Appearance of your website
- Themes
- Finding and uploading a theme
- Tweaking your theme
- Creating Menus
The Sidebar
- How to add content to the sidebar
- Widgets and how to use them
- Recommended Widgets
WordPress Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Finding and installing plugins
Recommended plugin lists for:
- Photo galleries
- SEO
- Social Networking
- Backups
- Other Essentials
Forms in WordPress
- Adding and customizing contact forms
Security and Anti-Spam
- Moderating Comments
- Preventing Spam
- Anti-Spam plugins
Social Networking
- Twitter, Facebook and other social media
- How to add these to a WordPress website
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- What is SEO?
- How to make your site attractive to Google
- Easy to implement SEO
- Recommended plugins
How to take payments
- Paypal integration
- Recommended plugins
Maintenance
- Upgrading WordPress
- Upgrading plugins
- Creating backups
- Recommended plugins
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WordPress Training Resources
Learn more about WordPress here:
http://wordpress.org/