WordPress (Basic)

The WordPress Basic course teaches you how to design your own website. Following a step-by-step guide, you will learn how to use the core tools and functions in WordPress.com to build and manage appealing, well-performing websites.

Course Content:

You will design and build a WordPress website from scratch. You may draw on your own ideas, images and text files to create your site.

• Set up your own WordPress.com sub-domain
• Create homepages, pages and posts
• Add and format text and work with horizontal rules and lists
• Use the Media Library, CSS editor and themes to customise designs
• Link from text and images
• Use tags and categories
• Add and manage users

Course Outcomes:

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Differentiate between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• Setup a new WordPress website
• Add pages with images and text
• Use themes to alter website appearance
• Maintain your website and use its workflow features
• Manage user permissions to allow contributors to add content