About this course
This WordPress training course will teach you the acceptable content format, content management: writing pages, posts and links; inserting images, videos and sound clips, managing multimedia files, making money from your WordPress website, generating traffic to your site, and configuring WordPress. Along with plug-ins, their uses and their dangers, security aspects of WordPress, defining the website structure through WordPress, administering content, managing users, moderating comments and discussions, and managing presentations.
In addition, the students will also learn the coding of a WordPress themes and plug-ins, spam control, how to customize WordPress appearances, managing site activities, adding pages, one-click installations, picking a web host, widgets, permalinks, controlling blogs, media library management, website maintenance and back-ups.
What you will learn
This course will provide you with sufficient knowledge to create a simple blog and website using WordPress. We’ll take you through the initial concepts before explaining how to set up an account on wordpress.com and create a new site from scratch. Once your site has been setup, we’ll take you through the many WordPress settings and options before creating pages and posts, drafting and publishing, uploading images and formatting your content with some simple HTML and CSS. We’ll then explain how to select and activate a theme, adjust any available options, set menu items and ensure the site is optimised for search engine results.
By the end of the day you’ll be a little tired but you will have created your own WordPress site and understand the process well enough that you can do it again! This course will provide you with sufficient knowledge to adapt a basic WordPress theme for use in your organisation or project. At the end of the course you should understand how WordPress is constructed and be able to apply, modify and create child (secondary) themes with support from other resources we’ll point you to along the way. There are some complex issues here and you should not expect to walk away an expert after just one (or two) day/s but you should have enough confidence to take what you’ve learned and begin to apply it to your own work.
Recent reviews
Doing this course online with someone in Delhi was not ideal. The audio quality was poor, the video and audio did not sync a lot of the time and the tutor's heavy accent made it difficult to guess what he may have been saying on top of all the audio…Doing this course online with someone in Delhi was not ideal. The audio quality was poor, the video and audio did not sync a lot of the time and the tutor's heavy accent made it difficult to guess what he may have been saying on top of all the audio issues. I am more than happy to have an instructor with an accent (of course!) but this just made it extra difficult when he sound was patchy, and the course content was very technical so it was imperative that I heard every word. The instructor was obviously very knowledgable and very pleasant/polite and patient with me, but I felt the way the material was presented could have been better - I would have like to have known before the class started what was going to be covered each day - there was no programme shared with me before or during. I am still waiting on the course notes that were promised to me as well. We also had a lot of technical difficulties with downloading certain pieces of software, and spent much time trying to get around these difficulties. I understand that the pandemic has meant that lots of courses are now online, but I found this course quite difficult to follow due to the audio difficulties. Sometimes it was fine, but too often I couldn't hear what was being said and that was very frustrating.Read more