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WordPress Class Online July 10, 2023 Introduction
WordPress training course - Introduction
$695.00
This WordPress training course is for those managing or creating content on WordPress sites, or wanting to get started with web design using WordPress. This WordPress course is helpful for those with no previous WordPress training, as it provides a solid foundation and best-practices for using and maintaining a WordPress site. This course starts with the essentials of a WordPress site setup, covers how to add text, images and multimedia, as well as how to format both the content and pages. How to add pages, posts, links are also covered along with fundamentals of administering WordPress sites. This includes creating and managing users and essential WordPress settings. The essentials of WordPress themes are covered, including how to make adjustments to the default appearance. Learn WordPress in this course which occurs monthly and is available as a live in-person course with the instructor in the same classroom or a live online class. If you have a group or organization that needs to learn WordPress, this class can also be delivered on-site at your location and tailored to your specific needs.
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
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your questions.