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
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An Introduction to Website Design (HTML, CSS, Authoring, etc.)
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
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Database and Template Usage
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Blogs / Forums and Other Available CMS
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Introducing WordPress
WordPress Overview
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The Dashboard
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Posts
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Media
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Pages
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Comments
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Appearance
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Plugins
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Settings
WordPress Settings Overview
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Description of Main Settings Options
Creating a First Post
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Post List
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New Post
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Formatting a Post
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Status / Visibility / Updating / Publishing
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Preview Post / See Post
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Categories
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Permalinks
Media
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Uploading Themes / Templates
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Sourcing a Theme
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Uploading a Theme
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Activating a Theme
Pages
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Page List
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New page / Format / Edit / Publish
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Page Template
Themes
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Using Themes / Templates
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Sourcing a Theme
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Uploading a Theme
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Activating a Theme
Widgets
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What are Widgets?
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Widget Positioning
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Adding Widgets
Menus
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Creating Menus
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Editing Menus
Users
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Creating New Users
Comments
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Managing Comments
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Explaining Spam Risks
Advanced Notes
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More About Plugins
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Editing a Template's CSS Code
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Other Tools
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Using Advanced Templates