WordPress Training (Intro)

WordPress training course for beginners, teaching everything you need to know to start creating professional-standard, responsive websites.

WordPress is the world’s most popular website and blogging content management system and blog, powering over 30% of the world’s websites. WordPress is easy-to-use and flexible, allowing you to create and manage websites and blogs without any programming knowledge.

Introduction to WordPress training introduces the powerful capabilities of WordPress. You learn everything you need to create a WordPress site from scratch, and maintain existing sites. 

Sessions Include:

• Introduction to WordPress and website development
• Hosting, installation and setup
• Getting around WordPress
• Planning your site
• Posts
• Pages
• Images, audio, video
• Using themes to change your site’s appearance
• Customising your page
• Menus, categories and navigation
• Plugins
• Coding essentials: HTML
• Coding essentials: CSS
• Users
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• User Experience (UX)
• Finishing touches
• Analytics

Course Content:

• Introduction to WordPress and website development
• What is WordPress and its history?
• Why mobile matter more and more
• Responsive website design in WordPress
• The pros and cons of WordPress
• Hosting, installation and setup
• Local vs. remote servers
• Hosting considerations
• Self-hosting vs. WordPress.com
• Setting up a local server
• Keeping your site safe and secure
• SSL (https) certificates
• Getting around WordPress
• Logging in and out
• Navigating WordPress and the admin bar
• The Dashboard
• Planning your site
• Case study project
• Selecting content for our website
• Read-only vs. interactive website features
• Sitemaps
• Posts
• Understanding posts – the difference between a post and a page
• Creating a post in the classic editor
• Categories and tags
• Drafts, previews and publishing
• Pages
• Creating and editing pages
• Page hierarchy – parent/child
• Page templates
• Images, audio, video
• Introducing the Media Library
• Preparing content for upload
• Uploading and labelling content for Accessibility and SEO
• Using themes to change your site’s appearance
• Understanding themes
• Free vs. premium themes
• Find, preview and install a theme
• Choosing the homepage
• Changing banner images
• Adding logos and text elements
• Changing colours
• Customising your page
• Headers
• Sidebars
• Footers
• Widgets
• Menus, categories and navigation
• Understanding menus
• Adding pages, posts and categories to menus
• Menus and theme options
• Plugins
• What’s a plugin and why do we use them?
• Paid vs. free plugins
• Popular plugins
• Coding essentials: HTML
• Understanding HTML
• The Text editor
• Block tags
• Inline tags
• Linking
• Coding essentials: CSS