WordPress for Beginners
Dates:
16 September 2010; 16 February, 12 May, 22 September & 17 November 2011 (a one-day course)
Price:
£280+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Note: Our rates will be changing in 2011. If you book before 31/12/2010 you will be charged the 2010 rate.
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
This course will help you get up and running quickly and equip you with the knowledge, hands-on experience and confidence needed to run your WordPress website or blog.
On completion of this course you will be able to:
- set up web hosting and download and install WordPress
- build, administer and update a website or blog using WordPress
- add and configure WordPress plug-ins and widgets.
This course has a maximum of 8 delegates, each with sole use of a networked PC, to ensure personal attention from the tutor.
What is not included?
The course does not include any CSS tuition or code hacking. If you are a developer or experienced WordPress user this course may not be advanced enough for you.
Programme
- WordPress basics
- What is WordPress?
- WordPress hosting and installation options
- Setting up web hosting
- Registering a domain name
- Downloading and installing WordPress on your web space
- How to install WordPress the easy way
- Logging in to WordPress
- Configuring WordPress
- General settings
- Discussion settings
- Permalink settings
- Privacy settings
- Reading settings
- Writing settings
- Miscellaneous settings
- Making WordPress behave like a website or blog
- Content
- Drafts and publishing
- Adding and editing content in pages and posts
- Adding 'media': Images, PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, video and audio
- Adding links
- Blogging with WordPress
- Writing a blog post
- Managing posts
- Understanding tags and categories
- Managing comments
- Fighting spam with Akismet
- Customising WordPress
- The most useful plugins
- Working with sidebars and widgets
- The best themes: both free and premium
- Making WordPress search engine friendly
- WordPress Administration
- Best practices for upgrading WordPress
- Managing WordPress users
- Permission levels and log-ins
- WordPress user roles explained
- Managing files
- The WordPress dashboard
- Measuring your site's traffic with Google Analytics
- Importing and exporting data
- Backups.
Your tutor
Sue Davis has been a freelance web consultant for more than ten years. She has been using WordPress to design and develop blogs and CMS-based websites since 2007. She has advised organisations including Channel 4 Television on editing for the web; designed websites for UNICEF, the BBC, Channel 4 and many other businesses and charities; and presented TV programmes about the Internet for BBC2 (Computers Don't Bite) and Sky TV (Download).
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
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Dates: 16 September 2010; 16 February, 12 May, 22 September & 17 November 2011
Price: £280+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
WordPress for Beginners - provisional booking form
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