Making a WordPress Website Training Course
Course Summary
This class is for anyone who wants to quickly launch a website that they can update on their own without having to learn too much behind the scenes coding. The entire process is covered from installation or purchase of a hosted website; setting up a theme, editing the website, adding content, installing plugins, stopping spam and setting up basic shopping carts.
Duration
6 hours.
Audience
Anyone who wants to launch their own website quickly and easily without any coding or programming. This class would also be an excellent choice for print designers who want to setup WordPress-based websites for their clients with minimal coding.
Outline
DAY 1 Overview of WP capabilities, Installing, Setup and updating your WordPress. Post Basics: logging in and password security, getting around the dashboard, editing existing posts, adding images to a post, adding video to a post, deleting a post,creating a new post, adding keywords, tags and categories, to comment or not to comment, editing and removing comments, fighting spam, adding new pages. Changing the look of a site by choosing, managing and purchasing existing themes, modifying themes.
DAY 2 Customizing a WordPress site with advanced theme management and plugins. How to add slideshows and custom interactive menus. Adding a shopping cart to WordPress. Exporting and transferring a website into or out of WordPress.
Training Schedule
| Location | May 2012 | Jun 2012 | Jul 2012 | Aug 2012 |
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| C2 Milwaukee Training Classroom |
Jul 25 - Jul 26
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