WordPress Course
Make money online or share your passion with the rest of the world. This easy-to-follow and hands-on course teaches you how to get started and grow your online presence. One-to-one or delivered to your team at your premises? It includes these topics:
- Publishing content
- Inserting media
- Integrating with social media
- Making money with your website
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Course Duration
One day (duration can be customised to suit your group)
Course Objectives
After completing this course you will: have a fully designed WordPress website and blog; understand the difference between a website and blog; be able to add, edit and delete pages and posts, post videos and media content; be able to customise your site with themes, navigation menus, widgets and plugins; be able to use the Dashboard and Jetpack addin to manage all aspects of your site; understand the fundamentals of integrating your website or blog as part of your social media strategy (i.e. facebook, twitter, youtube).
Who is this Course for
Start-up, individuals, small businesses, non profit organisations and anyone who wants to get their business online, develop a personal presence online, share their passion or start selling their products and services with a simple yet powerful e-commerce /shopping cart solution.
Course Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of the internet, basic computing and keyboard skills. On registering for the course, participants will receive a short course preparation worksheet.
Course Outline
Click on the headings below for more information on course topics:
Introduction
- What is WordPress? What is blogging? What is a website?
- Self-hosting vs. hosted WordPress: the right choice for your business
- Installation and Set Up
- Admin Panel, Settings and Basic Configuration
Publishing Content
- Posts and Pages
- Categories and Tags
- Users, Links
- Comments and Comment Moderation
Inserting Media
- Pictures
- Videos, YouTube
- Embedding content
- Working with Galleries
- Creating Portfolios
Customising Your Website
- Menus and navigation
- Themes
- Widgets
- Plugins
Integrating with Social Media & Search
- Define your Strategy and be found on Google
- Promoting your website with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
- SEO best practices, Sitemaps, RSS feed
Making Money with your Website
- Shopping Cart and Payment Buttons
- Listing your services and products
- Payment options