WordPress Basics Course
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.
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Expert trainers Experienced industry expert
- Class size Up to 8 in London, or up to 6 live online
- Support 28 days of helpdesk support
- Cancellation 7 day cancellation
- Certificate Certificate of attendance
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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.
Private & team training
Get a quote for WordPress Basics
This course isn't on the public schedule right now. Request a quote and we'll come back with dates, pricing and delivery options, at our centre, live online or at your venue.
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…
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 knowledgea…
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 si…
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…
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