WordPress Starter Course
Learn How To Quickly And Easily Create Professional Looking Websites Without Paying Professionals or Coding Knowledge …
Our WordPress Starter course will show you how to create professional looking websites, without hiring a designer or having to ‘code’. WordPress is quickly becoming the platform of choice for creating websites. It is an online, open source, non-techie website creation tool. It’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (CMS) available today.
Well-known brands such as CNN, Wall Street Journal. eBay, UPS. and Ben & Jerry’s use WordPress as the platform to build their websites. Knowing where to start when customizing your WordPress site can be a little overwhelming, however, our online WordPress course, will provide you with the knowledge and tools you require to create, market, manage and update any WordPress website.
Use These Skills To Generate An Income
You would be amazed at the amount of ‘local business owners’ who are not online as yet. The typical ‘bricks and mortar’ type business owners need help. So not only will you save you money by learning how to create and maintain your own website, you can easily offer this as a service to local business owners.
Course Objectives
This course will teach users how to identify the major components of creating a WordPress site. It will explain the key features of WordPress and its capabilities as a blogging or content management tool, how to plan and design a site and then how to use WordPress to build it.
Course Programme
Module 1
- Getting Started with WordPress
- WordPress.com vs WP.org
- What’s new in the latest version of WordPress?
- Installing WordPress [various methods]
- WordPress Dashboard Tour
- WordPress clean-up after installation
- Revisions and Auto-Saves
- Settings – General
- Settings – Writing
- Settings – Reading
- Settings – Discussion
- Settings- Media
- Settings – Permalinks
- Settings-3rd Party Settings
- How to change Site Login Details
- Gravatars
Module 2
- Pages vs Posts
- Categories
- Tags
- Post Manager Panel
- Post Formats
- Page Manager Panel
- Visual Editor Toolbar
- Creating Posts & Pages
- Media Library
- Hyperlink Tool
- Create Audio Playlists
- Plugins
- Custom Menus
- Widgets
- WordPress Themes
- New Editor vs Old
- Gutenberg Tour
- How Gutenberg’ Affects Existing Content
- How to Disable Gutenberg
- More Tools & Options
Module 3
- What are Plugins
- Choosing the Best Plugin
- Plugin Tester
- Contact Form Plugin
- Video Player Plugin
- Notification Bar Plugin
Module 4
- Website Backups
- Computer Security
- WP Secure Install
- Remove User ID 1 & Why
- Hacking Prevention basics
Who Is The Course For?
- Anyone wanting to create a free WordPress website
- Anyone wishing to gain WordPress knowledge
- Anyone who maintains and updates WordPress websites
- Anyone wishing to make money from creating and/or selling websites