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WordPress Basics | Training Course

Learn to create a professional SEO-friendly website or blog using WordPress.
Use themes and plugins to manage your site without the need to code.

WORDPRESS BEGINNERS COURSE | SMALL CLASS SIZES | LONDON LOCATION | ONLINE COURSE AVAILABLE

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What will I learn?

  • Customise website appearance using themes
  • Create and manage pages and posts
  • Configure site settings and user roles
  • Work with images and media effectively
  • Optimise your site for search engines
  • Free digital course assets
  • Free post-course helpdesk support
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Learner Reviews

How good is the course?

  • Average Score 4.8 out of 5
  • Delicious lunch provided
  • Certificate of Achievement
  • 15 reviews

Introduction

• What is WordPress?

• What can WordPress do?

• WordPress support and help


Getting Started

• The WordPress interface

• The admin bar and previewing your site

• Working with the dashboard

• Customising the screens

• Content controls

• Site admin controls


Adding and editing content

• Planning your content

• Pages vs Posts

• Categories, sub-categories and tags

• Adding and structuring pages

• Adding and structuring posts

• Basic look and feel changes

• Defining custom slug names


Site admin and configuration

• Adding users and user roles

• Changing site structure and permalinks

• Changing other site settings

• Managing post and page comments

• About updates

Working with images

• Uploading images to the media library

• Inserting images into posts and pages

• Controlling image position

• Defining featured images

• Advanced image settings

• Adding a photo gallery

• Adding videos


What is a plug-in?

• Installing plug-ins

• Adding a lightbox to your photo galleries

• Adding a contact form

• Adding Google Analytics to your site

• Adding SEO tools


Customising the look of your site

• What is a theme?

• Changing visual theme settings

• Adding a custom banner

• Working with Widgets and sidebars

• Controlling and customising menu bars

• Changing your theme

• Using a page builder plugin


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"Craig was great he tailored the lesson to my needs because I was the only attendee. He answered all of my questions and was very knowledgeable. Im very happy I took this course :)"
Somerset Bridge Group
31st January - WordPress Basics

Latest Reviews



"Hopefully the skills will be transferrable. I am certainly less scared about editing text within wordpress and finding my way around the site. Good pace and more confident about adding pages and posts so look forward to trying this ut ontest website."
British Library
  • 11th July


"The instructor was very helpful, took his time with the learners and went into depth about what we were learning about. i found it very useful and informative."
SB Skills Solutions Ltd
  • 23rd April


"Great at explaining things through and showing examples, and bringing everything back together so not to get lost."
The Follett Office
  • 5th January