WordPress for Beginners

Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows environment

This is a two-day introduction to the WordPress software. WordPress is the publishing platform of choice for over 100 million websites and blogs – including some of the most high-profile sites in the world. It has a Content Management System (CMS) market share of 58%. WordPress is quick to install and simple to get started on, with little configuration and setup. This course will give you a great start. It will take you from installing the software, adding content (including multimedia), interacting with your reader, through customising the look, and enhancing your site with plugins.

Day one

• Introduction To WordPress: What is WordPress? A little history
• Installing WordPress: Demonstration
• Anatomy of a website: Headers, footers and sidebars
• Exercise: Plan your site contents
• The WordPress Dashboard: Logging in and looking around
• Content types: Posts, pages and more
• Publishing your first content: It’s that easy!
• Exercise: Adding content to your site
• The look of your site
• Exercise: Changing things around

Day two

• Settings: Configuring WordPress just how you want it
• Comments: Engaging with your readers
• Exercise: Commenting and moderation
• Plugins: Playing with plugins
• Exercise: Choosing, installing, and activating a plugin
• Installing themes
• Exercise: Trying some themes
• Multiple users: Let someone else do some work
• Exercise: Co-authoring, editing, and workflow
• Free for all, Q&A, show & tell

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