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WordPress Bootcamp - Introduction rating: 5 stars from 141 reviewers
"Ben did an excellent job with presenting the WordPress material and making certain that the students were understanding everything. He also focused more on the areas that the students needed and wanted. I feel like I'm at a place where I can really use my WordPress skills. Ben provided us with a lot of great resources going forward and he emailed us additional training notes." - Tony B
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WordPress Bootcamp
WordPress Bootcamp
This comprehensive WordPress training teaches foundational skills through advanced topics over four consecutive days. The WordPress bootcamp covers the same materials as the introductory and advanced WordPress courses, although it is delivered as an intensive WordPress course in a single week. Participants learn fundamental processes from WordPress setup, to updating WordPress sites as needed, using Media in WordPress, installing WordPress themes, and troubleshooting common WordPress issues. The WordPress bootcamp starts with entry-level topics then migrates to more advanced skills as the week progresses. If you would prefer to take the introductory and advanced courses separately, you can find dates for them in the WordPress classes section of our site.
This course is available individually or as part of these certificate programs:
WordPress Bootcamp - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
WordPress Training Course Course Topics
Getting started with WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Custom installation
- One-click installation
- Logging in to WordPress
Exploring the WordPress dashboard
- Screen options
- Customizing your dashboard
- Editing your profile
- Logging out
Updating your WordPress installation
- Updating WordPress, plugins, and themes
Posts in WordPress
- Difference between posts and pages
- Creating a new post
- Using the editor
- Visual editor
- HTML editor
- Adding media
- Inserting a gallery
- Full screen editing
- Autosave
- Categories
- Tags
- Using custom fields
- Previewing, publishing, and saving drafts
- Editing an existing post
- Quick edit
- Deleting a post
- Viewing a post
- Changing the status of a post
- Changing the visibility of a post
- Permalinks and shortlinks
Using Media in WordPress
- The library
- Scaling and cropping images in WordPress
- Media metadata
- Uploading media
- Seeing where media is being used
Adding Links in WordPress
- Adding links
- Link categories
Pages in WordPress
- Adding, editing, and deleting pages
- Page attributes
- Parent pages
- Templates
- Ordering pages
WordPress Comments
- Enabling and disabling comments
- Setting default behaviors for comments
- Viewing comment
- Comment approval process
- Dealing with spam
- Deleting comments
WordPress Themes and Appearance
- Managing themes
- Installing themes
- Widgets
- Menus
- Appearance Editor
- Editing the CSS files
WordPress Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Finding plugins
- Installing plugins
- Activating and deactivating plugins
- Editing plugin settings
- Deleting plugins
Users
- Adding, editing, and deleting users
- User roles and permissions
Tools
- Available tools
- Importing content from another site
- Exporting your WordPress data
WordPress Settings
- General settings
- Changing the site title and tagline
- Changing your URL
- Using a different homepage
- Updating the admin email address
- Changing time zones
- Date/Time formats
Writing settings
- Changing the post box size
- Using emoticons
- Changing the default post and link categories
- Post to your site via email
- Remote publishing
Reading settings
- Changing default page behaviors
Discussion settings
- Default article and comment settings
- Comment moderation settings
Media settings
- Image sizing
- Embedding media
- Changing the default folder for uploaded files
Privacy settings
- Permalink settings
- Photo Album configuration
Must have WordPress plugins
Exploring the default WordPress theme
Customizing the WordPress theme
Customizing WordPress themes
WordPress child themes
Theme customization using a web inspector tool
Using a drag-and-drop content builder
WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Backing-up WordPress sites
Restoring WordPress sites from a backup
Creating a development WordPress sites for testing
Understanding and using content types
Working with essential WordPress plugins
Troubleshooting WordPress issues
Planning a WordPress site
WordPress Q&A: Answering site-specific WordPress questions
There are no prerequisites for this WordPress class.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this WordPress class.