WordPress Basics Course

Name: WordPress Basics
Rating: 4.7 (34 reviews)

Build and manage professional websites with WordPress on this practical one-day course for beginners.

Covering the dashboard, pages, themes, plugins and site security — no coding required.

Build and manage professional websites with WordPress on this practical one-day course for beginners. Covering the dashboard, pages, themes, plugins and site security — no coding required.

34 Reviews

9.3/10 Satisfaction

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Expert Trainers Experienced industry expert
Class Size 1–8 in person or 1–6 online
Support 28 days free helpdesk
Cancellation 7 day cancellation
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WordPress Basics Course

Build and manage professional websites with WordPress on this practical one-day course for beginners and non-technical users.

You'll learn how WordPress works and how to navigate the dashboard, how to create and organise pages and posts, how to work with images and the media library, how to use themes to control the look and feel of your site, how to extend your site with plugins, how to work with menus and widgets, and how to keep your site secure, backed up and up to date.

Hands-on throughout using a live WordPress installation.

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Course Outline

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

Questions and answers

This course is available as a private course. This allows you to choose the dates of your training and the location (in our training centre, online or at your offices). And, if you wish, we can tailor the content for you or your team. Please contact us for more details.

Who is this course for?

For business owners, marketers, bloggers and non-technical professionals who need to build and manage a website. No prior WordPress or coding experience required.

Simon was excellent in his delivery. The content of the course was well-paced, and the structure of the day was well broken up to make sure that the…

Explaining eveerything at a good pace and simplifying it enough to allow someone with no previous experience to understand it fully

Very informative, lots of relevant contents, approachable teacher

Amazing training session. Simon made it very relatable to our issues.

Craig was great he tailored the lesson to my needs because I was the only attendee. He answered all of my questions and was very knowledgeable. Im ve…

Clear explanation and really helpful demo and advice

Hopefully the skills will be transferrable. I am certainly less scared about editing text within wordpress and finding my way around the site. Good p…

The instructor was very helpful, took his time with the learners and went into depth about what we were learning about. i found it very useful and in…

Great at explaining things through and showing examples, and bringing everything back together so not to get lost.

Really knowledgeable and was good for the trainer to gauge what each and everyone of us wanted to develop in the session - Really felt like we got th…

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34 Reviews

9.3/10 Satisfaction

100% Recommend

Simon was excellent in his delivery. The content of the course was well-paced, and the structure of the day was well broken up to make sure…

Oisín – 18th March 26

Explaining eveerything at a good pace and simplifying it enough to allow someone with no previous experience to understand it fully

Abdullah – 18th March 26

Very informative, lots of relevant contents, approachable teacher

Irene – 18th March 26

Amazing training session. Simon made it very relatable to our issues.

Katie – 19th November 25

Craig was great he tailored the lesson to my needs because I was the only attendee. He answered all of my questions and was very knowledgea…

Emma – 31st January 25

Clear explanation and really helpful demo and advice

Mimi – 11th July 24

Hopefully the skills will be transferrable. I am certainly less scared about editing text within wordpress and finding my way around the si…

Isobel – 11th July 24

The instructor was very helpful, took his time with the learners and went into depth about what we were learning about. i found it very use…

Christian – 23rd April 24

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