Mastering WordPress

This course will show you how to use WordPress to design, create and edit a web site or blog. Class discussion and exercises cover —

• The role of WordPress in building and editing web sites,

• How to use WordPress on your own computer or on a server,

• Overview of WordPress features and interface,

• Setting overall site options,

• Choosing a WordPress template, using template options and widgets,

• The difference between WordPress posts and pages,

• The creation of WordPress posts and pages, saving drafts and previewing them, and publishing and updating posts and pages,

• Inserting graphics, specifying alternative text and size attributes,

• Creating links within your own site and to outside sites,

• Creating and implementing custom menus,

• The basic rules of HTML and how to view HTML within WordPress,

• How to insert custom HTML into a page created with WordPress,

• How to remove the default Comment box and “Like” links for on a page,

• Factors that affect SEO and WordPress tools for addressing them.