This hands-on workshop will teach you everything you need to know on how to setup and customize WordPress, as well as demonstrate how content choices affect SEO.
$29 for a limited time! (Regular price $99)
Buy NowThis is a 101 training for WordPress on the current version and introduces you to best practice concepts for setting up a new website using WordPress, blogging, hosting, content creation, SEO and website maintenance. No previous experience with WordPress or website development necessary. You can manage your own website without the help of a webmaster!
We’ve had students from all over including the US, the UK, Italy, Australia and the Philippines.
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- Learn step-by-step how to setup a self-hosted WordPress website
- Detailed, high definition videos!
- Take the training at your own pace
This four part workshop will show you how to:
- Install and configure WordPress from scratch
- Write your first blog post
- How to add images and videos to your blog posts
- Adding social media to your blog
- Install plugins and themes
- How to customize your WordPress theme
- Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to build traffic
We’ve been helping people to learn how to use WordPress since 2008. This training is based on the live, four week training workshop held twice a year in January and September.
Course Outline
Session 1: WordPress Overview
Session 2: WordPress Setup
Session 3: WordPress Hand-On
Session 4: WordPress Strategy
Course Outline
Session 1: WordPress Overview
- Register domain names
- Signup for website hosting
- Why WordPress?
- Amazing blogging platform
- Easy to maintain website platform
- WordPress resources
- Questions and Answers
Session 2: WordPress Setup
- Download and Install WordPress
- Download website development tools for WordPress
- Login to Cpanel
- cPanel overview
- Benefits of installing WordPress yourself vs one click installs
- FTP upload of WordPress with Filezilla
- Creating a database for WordPress
- Installing WordPress themes
- Tour of WordPress dashboard
- Creating your first post
- What is SEO and why you should care
- Questions and Answers
Session 3: WordPress Hand-On
- Review of Session 2
- What’s new in WordPress 3.0 and 3.1.x
- Creating your first page
- Adding your first widget on the sidebar
- Adding your first plugin
- How to get your site indexed in Google for a ton of traffic
- Overview – Why you need Google Analytics on your WordPress website
- Overview – Email for your WordPress website with Google Apps
- Questions and Answer
Session 4: WordPress Strategy
- Review of session 1, 2 and 3
- Check out your new websites! Round Robin
- Extending WordPress with Ecommerce
- Tour of Beautiful WordPress Websites and what they’re doing right
- How to insert images into your posts
- How to insert video from YouTube
- How to customize your theme more
- WordPress Security, Backups and Upgrades
- What To look for when buying WordPress themes
- Questions and Answers
