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Course Overview
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.
Who Should Attend
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.
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.
Course Outline
1 - WORD PRESS INTRO
- Intro to Content Management Systems (What is a CMS?)
- About WordPress
- Website hosting for WordPress
- Domain names
- Free online accounts
2 - 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
3 - 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
4 - COMMENTS
- Allowing comments
- How long should comments stay posted?
- Ongoing conversations
- Dealing with Spam
5 - 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
6 - 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
7 - 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
8 - GETTING NOTICED
- Keeping the readers in the loop
- Having readers share
- Manage your sites feed
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Site statistics
9 - FINISHING TOUCHES
- Launching your site
- Setting up permalinks
- Updates
- Where to find additional plugins and themes
- Backing up your site