WordPress Level 1 training will teach you the knowledge and practical experience necessary to begin creating your website or blog. Learn to select the right WordPress theme for your objectives, organize web content in an intuitive way, add images and video to your site and manage a growing community of commenters and visitors.
WordPress Level 1 is a powerful, open-source blogging tool, & has a powerful set of content management features and visually-rich design themes, enabling you to build and manage a website of any size.
WordPress is for anyone that wants to create or update a website and wants to learn how to update and develop websites.
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
Course Outline:Getting Started with WordPress- Configure WordPress around your site's objectives
- Master key techniques to manage web content effectively
- Create and manage user accounts
- Back up critical data and files
Adding and Organizing Site Content- Design a logical tagging scheme which will grow with your site
- Create and assign custom fields to posts and other content
- Manage large numbers of external links with a minimum of broken links
Growing a Community Around Your WordPress Site- Develop a strategy to moderate comments ... before problems arise
- Moderate, manage and disable comments with minimal effort
- Draw on an arsenal of utilities and techniques to win the war on spam
Understanding and Using WordPress's Media Management Capabilities- Learn how to get the most from the Media Library
- Upload and manage audio and video files
- Integrate media seamlessly into posts and web pages
Customizing WordPress- Find and upload the right WordPress theme for your objectives
- Tailor the look and feel of your WordPress site with the Theme Editor and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Build themes and templates from scratch
- Add Widgets and Plug-Ins into your site
Note: ALL of our classes come with a CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
School Notes: Important - Students must bring their own laptop with the Adobe application loaded to be prepared for class. We do not supply computers. It's Bring Your Own
Computer.
