Courses about WordPress:
- WordPress fundamentals – equip your team to be able to manage your site
- Answers questions such as ‘how can I update this?’ and ‘why does the page do this?’
- Painpoints with your site – we can suggest improvements
- Theme creation – create a bespoke WordPress theme from scratch
- Plugins – educate around which plugins are useful and look at the basics of developing plugins
- WordPress overview – core features
WordPress introduction training summary:
- 4 hour training session (times can be flexible to suit)
- Bring in your own laptop: should this not be possible, please make Clicky aware so we can supply one
- The course is great if you want to learn how to manage and update your WordPress website
- All attendees get electronic copies of the training materials used throughout the day
- No WordPress experience required: as long as you can use a computer, you will be able to learn
Things to be covered: how to set up WordPress
- Introduction to WordPress
- How to set up a WordPress website from scratch
- Explanation of custom post types, taxonomies and meta
How to publish posts and pages
- How to manage content in WordPress
- How to create, edit and delete pages and posts
- How to add links
- Inserting and embedding images, video and audio
- How to create and arrange menus
How to add functionality to your site with WordPress plugins
- Overview of plugins
- How to install plugins
- Top WordPress plugins that we use at Clicky and what they do
- How to use plugins and widgets to improve your website’s functionality
User management
- Overview of users and the privileges available
- How to add, edit and delete users
Search Engine optimisation
- How to make sure your website is optimised for Search Engines
- Creating pretty URL’s using permalinks
- Basics of using the Yoast SEO plugin
- How to add meta titles, descriptions and keywords to improve ranking
Security
- How to make sure your WordPress website is secure
- How to back up your WordPress website regularly
Questions
Questions are encouraged throughout the training session, however a specific time slot will be allocated to address these.
Training Details:
Location: Clicky HQ (3 & 4 St Johns Court, Vicars Lane, Chester, CH1 1QE)
Time Allocation: 4 hours with a Senior Front-End Developer