April 16th, 11 am — 5 pm
During your Hands-on WordPress class you will work real-time with the instructors as you learn and implement the steps to plan and build a site.
Class that will start at promptly at 11 am. and run to 5 pm.
Bring your laptop and a lunch.
We will provide soft drinks, coffee and tea. For those of you who don’t want to do the brown bag thing there is a great, but more importantly, FAST Mexican restaurant down stairs.
We have scheduled a half hour “Brown Bag” lunch break around 1 pm. and two breaks during the afternoon.
Here is what you will learn…
The Basic WordPress Install
- A step-by-step overview of the WordPress Install process
How to choose and modify a WordPress Theme
- Defining what functions your site will need
- The best place to start
- Using the Appearance Panel to install or change themes
- How to change the look and feel of a theme
Dashboard Quick Tour
- Understanding the difference between Pages and Posts
- Creating content – Add New Page, and Add New Post
- Bring content from Microsoft Word into WordPress
- Formatting text and content using the Visual Editor and/or HTML code view option
- Work in Progress, or ready to publish? Saving and publishing pages and posts
- Changing the display order of pages
- Using the publish date of Posts – publication schedules and building history
- Editing, previewing and updating existing pages and posts
Organizing Your Website
- Identifying and defining your site’s primary and secondary purpose
- Organizing content and navigation to achieve your purpose
- Creating Pages and organizing your site navigation
- Using the Quick Edit tool
- The Appearance Panel revisited: Custom Menus
Using Categories and Tags
- Understanding and using Tags and Categories
- How to add and edit Categories
- Arranging your content by subject
- How to add and edit Tags
DashBoard Revisited
- How to customize the WordPress interface
- Hiding Dashboard modules
- The collapsible navigation menu and functions
- The Right Now statistics overview module
- Not just text – Using the Media Library for pictures, video, audio and more
- Organizing your web connections with Links
- The Comments Panel: Getting and managing user feedback
- The Users Panel: Expanding your audience with subscribers, authors and editors
- Tools and Settings – A first look
- Adding features to your site with Plugins
- Changing and adding sidebar content – Appearance Panel Widgets
Maintaining your site
- How to Backup a WordPress web site
- WordPress upgrades
