Learn to run your own WordPress site
Why run your own site on WordPress?
- Your website is your storefront online, and it has to earn the trust of people who are not customers yet.
- A site that looks professional is what lets the business grow online.
- Learn how to build a WordPress site. The course is taught by our own WordPress specialists, and it leaves you in control of both the tool and the site.
- The WordPress course covers what you need to run the site day to day.
- It also explains how a website works underneath, how its SEO is handled, and how to get more out of your online advertising.
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What the WordPress course is
- The WordPress course is built around your level and what you want out of it.
- It walks through building a site with WordPress, covering the topics set out below:
- The dashboard
- Content
- Categories and tags
- Comments
- Plugins
- Administration
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Benefits
Getting real use out of what WordPress already gives you.
Independence
After the course you can run WordPress yourself, without a vendor in the middle every time the site needs a change. It also means you are not stuck with a site you cannot touch if that relationship ends.
Autonomy
Between the course and the guide we hand over at the end, you can run the whole site: updates, edits, whatever you decide it needs. No waiting in someone else’s queue, you change the site and keep the blog current yourself.
Lower cost
Building a site can get expensive. Doing it in house usually costs less and frees up budget for the work that actually brings people in.
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What the WordPress course covers
The dashboard
- Getting around the dashboard.
- Finding your way in the admin area.
- Changing WordPress settings.
Content
- Adding, editing and deleting content.
- The difference between a page and a post.
- Working alongside the CSS.
- Adding media files to your content.
- Embedding content from YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and X.
- Managing the media library.
- Adding links to your content.
- Making content ready to share.
- Building and customising a menu.
- Writing, publishing and editing a blog post.
Categories and tags
- Working properly with categories and tags.
- Telling a category apart from a tag.
- Creating categories.
- Tagging a post.
Comments
- Moderating comments.
- Setting a comment policy.
- Filtering, approving, editing and deleting comments.
Plugins
- What a plugin is.
- Finding and installing a plugin.
- Using plugins to handle comments.
- Changing a plugin’s options.
- Updating a plugin.
- Uninstalling a plugin.
Administration
- Looking at your site traffic.
- Setting up a Google Analytics account.
- A hands-on workshop building a WordPress site.
- Keeping an eye on the blog.
- Adding users to the site.
By the end of the WordPress course you have full control of the site and can run it without depending on anyone. You also get one-to-one follow-up and course material, including video tutorials and written manuals.
To find out more about the course, get in touch with our team.
