Microsoft Power BI

WordPress Beginners

Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

This course is designed for people who require the proficiency to take over the content management of a WordPress website.

Course Objectives:

WordPress is a free and open-source blogging tool, and a content-management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Worldwide Web, at more than 60 million websites.

Course Outline:

Course Introduction

  • An Introduction to Website Design (HTML, CSS, Authoring, etc.)
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Database and Template Usage
  • Blogs / Forums and Other Available CMS
  • Introducing WordPress

WordPress Overview

  • The Dashboard
  • Posts
  • Media
  • Pages
  • Comments
  • Appearance
  • Plugins
  • Settings

WordPress Settings Overview

  • Description of Main Settings Options

Creating a First Post

  • Post List
  • New Post
  • Formatting a Post
  • Status / Visibility / Updating / Publishing
  • Preview Post / See Post
  • Categories
  • Permalinks

Media

  • Uploading Themes / Templates
  • Sourcing a Theme
  • Uploading a Theme
  • Activating a Theme

Pages

  • Page List
  • New page / Format / Edit / Publish
  • Page Template

Themes

  • Using Themes / Templates
  • Sourcing a Theme
  • Uploading a Theme
  • Activating a Theme

Widgets

  • What are Widgets?
  • Widget Positioning
  • Adding Widgets

Menus

  • Creating Menus
  • Editing Menus

Users

  • Creating New Users

Comments

  • Managing Comments
  • Explaining Spam Risks

Advanced Notes

  • More About Plugins
  • Editing a Template's CSS Code
  • Other Tools
  • Using Advanced Templates

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