Description

WordPress Made Easy: Essential Skills for Building and Running Your Site

This beginner-friendly course provides a comprehensive introduction to WordPress, empowering participants to build, customize, and manage websites with confidence. Whether you bring your own site or work on a practice site, you’ll gain hands-on experience and leave with the skills to tackle real-world WordPress challenges.

What You Will Learn:

Module 1: Introduction to WordPress: This module will cover the basics of WordPress, including the difference between self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com, domain names, hosting, and DNS. You will also learn how to navigate the WordPress dashboard and settings.

Module 2: WordPress Essentials: In this module, you will master the core functions of WordPress. You will learn how to create and manage posts and pages, upload and organize media, and work with themes and plugins.

Module 3: Advanced Site Customization: This module will teach you how to customize your WordPress site to fit your specific needs. You will learn how to use the Customizer to change the look of your site, work with page builders, and optimize your site for performance.

Module 4: Managing WordPress Sites: This module will cover the essential aspects of managing a WordPress website, including updates, backups, security, SEO, analytics, user roles, and troubleshooting.

Module 5: Capstone Completion and Presentation: In this final module, you will finalize your capstone project and review it with your coach.

Course Format:

• Online, with video lessons, hands-on practice and coaching.
• 20 hours of course time.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to build and manage a WordPress website. No prior experience is required.

It is highly recommended that participants bring their own project site (e.g., a personal website, non-profit, or small business) and secure admin access before the course. If you do not have one, you will build a practice site instead.

Upon Completion: Upon completing the course, you will earn a certificate in “WordPress (All Versions)”.

Prerequisites: Basic computer skills, including familiarity with file systems, internet browsing, and web-based applications.

Optional support before you start: Help with backing up an existing site before the course begins is available.