WordPress Core Essentials

Course Description

WordPress is free, easy to setup and easy to use. It facilitates self-management of your website or blog as you can update the content yourself regularly - which is vital to attracting and retaining users. Using WordPress means more members of a team can learn to update and add content to the website or blog. Prior to any course we will discuss your requirements and develop the course content to suit your needs.
1-2 Days
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Prerequisites

This course assumes no prior knowledge. Participants will cover the key skills to create and publish posts and pages, customise site(s) with themes, widgets and custom menus and extend WordPress further with plugins.

Installation

Requirements
MySQL Database setup
FTP
Installing WordPress on server

Writing Posts

Creating Categories
Your content

Hyperlinks

Inserting hyperlinks
External hyperlinks
E-mail hyperlinks

Themes

Applying Themes
Adding Themes

Creating Pages

Adding Drop-down Menus
Adding images to your pages

Plugins

Using Tables in WordPress
Facebook Plugin
SEO plugin
Shopping Cart Plugin

Using/Editing Images - GIMP

Resizing Images in WordPress
Photo Gallery

CSS

Editing CSS stylesheets in WordPress
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