WordPress for Beginners – Module 1
Module #1: The best place to start
Who Is This For?
Anyone who wants their own website – completely within their control.
Anyone who wants to be able to publish on the internet or increase public awareness of themselves or their interests, organisation or business.
Anyone who is a beginner to WordPress and doesn’t know how to use a WordPress website. You now want hands-on training, to help you get started.
Please note: Like all our WordPress training courses, this is a hands-on workshop. It has been designed so you will leave at the end of the training, with enabling WordPress skills you did not have before. You are strongly encouraged to bring your own wi-fi enabled laptop computer. If you can’t do this, we can provide a laptop for the workshop at additional cost (see our extras). Please let us know in advance.
Our Requirements For Acceptance:
You must have good basic computer skills, eg. you can connect to the internet, check and send email, go to a specific website address, browse website pages etc, all with ease.
Plus, ONE of the following..
- You already have a working WordPress website, but don’t know how to use it properly, OR…
- You already have a domain name and hosting which supports WordPress and you have activated it. OR…
- Before the workshop, we have helped you get a suitable domain and web hosting package, with WordPress activated, (see our “help package extra“) OR…
- You just want to learn how to use WordPress and therefore, you will take advantage of one of our “test drive” training websites, provided free of charge for the workshop
What This Course Module Will Cover
- The huge advantages of using WordPress to power your websites and what makes it so good for most types of sites.
- The best way to activate WordPress software for a website (with the recommended resources in a handout). Please note: If you want to actually build your own live website during the workshop, you will need to have arranged for WordPress to be activated on YOUR domain name, BEFORE the workshop (with our help if necessary – see the optional Extras). If you don’t want to build your website in the workshop, but just want to learn how to use WordPress, you can use one of our “test drive” websites on the day.
- Introduction to the WordPress admin dashboard
- Changing the admin login password
- When to use Posts and when to use Pages
- Writing a new Post and editing it later
- Writing a new Page and editing it
- Make text different colours and sizes
- How to make links easily to other sites or other pages
- Uploading an image to the media library, including cropping
- Adding an image to a Post, including resizing
- Adding a photo gallery or portfolio quickly and easily
- Embedding a YouTube video or most other types of movies
- Adding music to your site
- How to manage comments on your site (if you want to allow them)
- Using Categories and Tags to organise your Posts
- A word on Updates and Backups
- Final Questions and Answers
- Follow-up and support arrangements