Course Description
This course gives an introduction to the basic foundations of running a WordPress site. This includes navigating the dashboard and interface, creating pages and posts, user accounts and roles, comment management and settings, customizing the look of your WordPress site with menus, widgets and themes, plugins and site maintenance.
This course is kept simple to get you up and running quickly. The author shares and demonstrates using online resources available for free to expand deeper into WordPress topics.
Instructor: Peter Ritter
What am I going to get from this course?
- Understand what is WordPress
- Log in and navigate the application
- Create posts
- Create pages
- View and manage content
- Work with user accounts and roles
- Understand content management and settings
- Change appearance
- Work with plugins
- Site maintenance
Prerequisites and Target Audience
What will students need to know or do before starting this course?
Access to a hosted WordPress site (admin role access). A strong understanding of web-based terms and how websites work. Basic HTML skills.
Who should take this course? Who should not?
Individuals looking to understand the basics of WordPress to get them up and started quickly. Individuals that are looking for an overview to get them started.
Curriculum
Resource 1
Student Data Files
Module 2: What is WordPress?
Lecture 2
From Blogs to CMS - A Popular Choice
Lecture 3
Wordpress, Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com
Module 3: Getting Started
Lecture 4
Getting Started - Logging into Your Site
Lecture 7
Posts vs. Pages
Lecture 9
Publishing Posts
Lecture 11
Text Formatting
Lecture 12
Creating Links
Lecture 14
Adding an Image Gallery
Lecture 15
Featured Image
Lecture 16
Adding YouTube Videos
Lecture 17
Restoring and Comparing Versions
Lecture 18
Creating a New Page
Lecture 19
Parent and Sub Pages and Page Templates
Module 6: Viewing and Managing Content
Lecture 20
All Posts and Pages
Lecture 21
Quick and Bulk Edit
Module 7: User Accounts and Roles
Lecture 24
Adding a New User and User Roles
Module 8: Comment Management and Settings
Lecture 25
Discussion Settings
Lecture 26
Comment Management
Lecture 27
Theme Selection
Lecture 28
Theme Customizer
Lecture 31
Front Page - Static or Posts
Lecture 33
Adding New Themes
Lecture 34
Installing Plugins
Lecture 35
Plugin Example
Module 11: Site Maintenance
Lecture 38
Suggest Security Plugins