WordPress Basics

What Will I Learn?

•  Set up your site with WordPress.org

•  Add content and images

•  Content best practices

•  Customise your WordPress site

•  Work with themes and plugins

•  Free digital course assets

•  Free post-course helpdesk support

Introduction

• What is WordPress?

• What can WordPress do?

• WordPress support and help

Getting Started

• The WordPress interface

• The admin bar and previewing your site

• Working with the dashboard

• Customising the screens

• Content controls

• Site admin controls

Adding and editing content

• Planning your content

• Pages vs Posts

• Categories, sub-categories and tags

• Adding and structuring pages

• Adding and structuring posts

• Basic look and feel changes

• Defining custom slug names

Site admin and configuration

• Adding users and user roles

• Changing site structure and permalinks

• Changing other site settings

• Managing post and page comments

• About updates

Working with images

• Uploading images to the media library

• Inserting images into posts and pages

• Controlling image position

• Defining featured images

• Advanced image settings

• Adding a photo gallery

• Adding videos

What is a plug-in?

• Installing plug-ins

• Adding a lightbox to your photo galleries

• Adding a contact form

• Adding Google Analytics to your site

• Adding SEO tools

Customising the look of your site

• What is a theme?

• Changing visual theme settings

• Adding a custom banner

• Working with Widgets and sidebars

• Controlling and customising menu bars

• Changing your theme

• Using a page builder plugin