Course Description
This course shows you how to use WordPress 4.7’s themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about any kind of site.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:This course provides a thorough A to Z look at WordPress. You will learn the basic skills and knowledge of WordPress including how to create, manage, maintain, and extend a WordPress site. This course is a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises that provide practical real-world experience.
Agenda
Word Press intro
- • Intro to Content Management Systems (What is a CMS?)
- • About WordPress
- • Website hosting for WordPress
- • Domain names
- • Free online accounts
Install and Manage your WordPress site
- • Planning your site
- • Setting up the website hosting and creating a database
- • Install WordPress (w/Autoinstaller)
- • Install WordPress (manually)
- • Working with the interface
- • Configure settings
Your First Post
- • What is dashboard?
- • The difference between a post and a page
- • Creating your first blog
- • Organizing your posts
- • Dashboard tips and tricks
Comments
- • Allowing comments
- • How long should comments stay posted?
- • Ongoing conversations
- • Dealing with Spam
Web Pages and Menus
- • Creating your first page (Home page)
- • Creating additional pages
- • Templates
- • Linking your site by building a site navigation menu
- • Custom Menus
Managing Content
- • Working with existing content
- • Adding images to the media library
- • Creating a Photo gallery
- • Using featured images
- • Tags and categories to organize your content
- • Embedding video
- • Playing audio
- • Embeds and Short codes
Customizing Content
- • Changing the appearance of your WordPress site by customizing the theme
- • Using Widgets
- • What are Plugins?
- • Mobile Themes
- • Using Jetpack
- • Ecommerce
- • Theme code editing
Getting Noticed
- • Keeping the readers in the loop
- • Having readers share
- • Manage your sites feed
- • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- • Site statistics
Finishing Touches
- • Launching your site
- • Setting up permalinks
- • Updates
- • Where to find additional plugins and themes
- • Backing up your site
Audience
Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features.
