WordPress Fundamentals Class Annoncement

If you’re ready to learn WordPress, get started with our Fundamentals classes and learn how and why to use WordPress for your next website.

This four-part Fundamentals course has been designed to take you from WordPress newbie to confident user. Participating in these classes will save you countless hours in research and should ease the trial-and-error learning curve that discourages many new WordPress users.

We give you the tools and processes to plan and create a site that can be expanded and refined as your business grows. Each participant has access to a personal test WordPress site, installed and ready for them to work on during the course. Experienced WordPress trainers will guide students through the entire process, and by the end of the WordPress Fundamentals course you will understand the right way to install, administer, and customize a WordPress website for business or personal use.

For those who wish to further expand their skill set, this Fundamentals course prepares students for the AdvancedWordPress classes.

What you will learn

Fundamentals Course Syllabus:

The Basic WordPress Install
- A step-by-step overview of the WordPress Install process
How to choose and modify a WordPress Theme
- Defining what functions your site will need
- The best place to start
- Using the Appearance Panel to install or change themes
- How to change the look and feel of a theme
Dashboard Quick Tour
- Understanding the difference between Pages and Posts
- Creating content – Add New Page, and Add New Post
- Bring content from Microsoft Word into WordPress
- Formatting text and content using the Visual Editor and/or HTML code view option
- Work in Progress, or ready to publish? Saving and publishing pages and posts
- Changing the display order of pages
- Using the publish date of Posts – publication schedules and building history
- Editing, previewing and updating existing pages and posts
Organizing Your Website
- Identifying and defining your site’s primary and secondary purpose
- Organizing content and navigation to achieve your purpose
- Creating Pages and organizing your site navigation
- Using the Quick Edit tool
- The Appearance Panel revisited: Custom Menus
Using Categories and Tags
- Understanding and using Tags and Categories
- How to add and edit Categories
- Arranging your content by subject
- How to add and edit Tags
Dash Board Revisited
- How to customize the WordPress interface
- Hiding Dashboard modules
- The collapsible navigation menu and functions
- The Right Now statistics overview module
- Not just text – Using the Media Library for pictures, video, audio and more
- Organizing your web connections with Links
- The Comments Panel: Getting and managing user feedback
- The Users Panel: Expanding your audience with subscribers, authors and editors
- Tools and Settings – A first look
- Adding features to your site with Plugins
- Changing and adding sidebar content – Appearance Panel Widgets
Maintaining your site
- How to Backup a WordPress web site
- WordPress upgrades