WordPress

Learn WordPress in central London. We teach you to build, customise and maintain a highly effective site with WordPress.

On this training course we will: Ensure your site has an optimised setup, is aesthetically pleasing to your audience, and has great content (in terms of posts and pages). We facilitate the building of sites that are best organised for search engines and  for your valuable customers. You will also learn to add media easily (Photos, videos and more) and use the best widgets and plugins make your life easy and to ensure visitor satisfaction.

Course outline for WordPress Training

Introduction

• Installing WordPress properly

• WordPress, WordPress.com, and WordPress.org

• Accessing your WordPress site

• The WordPress Dashboard & toolbar

• Back-end assets

WordPress Posts and pages

• Creating & publishing posts and pages

• Tagging, more tags and categories

• Advanced text formatting

• Comparing with Revisions

• Organising hierarchy and managing links

Images and Media

• Using images and galleries

• Adding featured Images

• Embedding media from YouTube and other services

• How does WordPress handles media content

• Using image templates

Managing Content

• Using the Dashboard

• Utilising Quick Edit

• Defining post formats

• Managing user levels

• Bulk Editing

Making WordPress beautiful

• Understanding the Theme Customiser

• Selecting and changing themes

• Applying a custom header image

• User & Gravatar profiles

• Generating custom menus

More Customisation

• Wordpress widgets

• blog view or static pages

• The WordPress Theme Directory

• Applying custom themes

• Fluid & Liquid layouts

Power Plugins

• Installing & activating plugins

• The top 5 plugins

• Adding an effective contact page with plugins

• Essential security plugins

• Social Media and SEO plugins

Additional Settings

• Managing permalinks and comments

• Updating WordPress

• WordPress Discussion Settings

• Avoiding WordPress crashes

• Exporting and importing content