Start time 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 17.00 (Central European Time)
Bring your laptop (PC, Mac or Chromebook) as the WordPress course is ‘hands-on’
You will get video tutorials of the WordPress course
You will get a training WordPress website to practice on for one month
This WordPress in 1 Day course is great if you want to learn how to build a new website or if you have an existing website and you want to learn how to maintain and improve it.
No experience required. This WordPress course is great for beginners and for those that have some experience with WordPress.
As long as you can use a computer you will be able to build a great looking website with WordPress.
The set up of a WordPress website
Introduction to WordPress
What is needed for a self hosted WordPress website?
Set up a website on your domain name
The costs involved in building a WordPress website
What is the best hosting for WordPress
Content creation with WordPress
How to use the new WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg)
How to create professional-looking pages and posts
How to add links into your pages
How to insert images, youtube video, audio
Content Management
WordPress content management explained
The difference between Pages and Posts
How to do maintenance, updates and upgrades
The importance of Categories and Tags to organise your information
Structuring your WordPress website
How to structure your information
How to create and arrange the navigation
How to use WordPress widgets
How to create a blog with WordPress
How to create a portfolio website
Comment moderation
How to turn off reader comments
How to monitor and moderate comments
How to stop spam
WordPress plugins
An overview of WordPress plugins
How to install WordPress plugins
5 popular WordPress plugins explained
Search Engine optimization (SEO)
How to the ranking for Google works
How to make sure your website is optimized for Search Engines
Tagging and categorizing your posts – how to do it and why it’s important
How to add meta descriptions in your content to improve ranking
How to SEO optimize your images
What about Security
How to make sure your WordPress website is secure
How to back up your WordPress website
How to take advantage of the social web
How to share your content on other social networks
Adding ‘Share’ buttons or not
How to add a newsletter
Following this WordPress course you will be able to:
Manage, update and improve your website
Use the WordPress CMS to manage your website content
Promote your website
Manage comments
Understand and use your WordPress theme, plugins and widgets
You will get:
A full video recording of the Day
Step by step instruction and video tutorials of the course
