Our 1 day WordPress course will give you the knowledge to create,
manage and run a great WordPress website.
Only £95 + vat per person
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WordPress training course outline
- Time 10am – 4pm
- Please note that you will need to bring a laptop (PC or Mac) as the course is ‘hands-on’
- Attendees get a WordPress training site to learn on during the day and for 1 year after the course
- All attendees get electronic copies of the training materials used throughout the day
- The course is great if you want to learn how to build a new website, or learn how to update and improve your existing one.
- No experience required. As long as you can use a computer you will be able to build a great looking website with WordPress.
How to set up WordPress
- Introduction to WordPress
- How to set up a WordPress website in 15 mins
How to publish posts, pages, images and video
- How to manage content in WordPress
- An explanation of content management in WordPress
- How to create professional looking pages and posts
- How to add links
- Inserting and embedding media – images, video, audio
- How to create and arrange menus
Comment moderation
- How to monitor and moderate comments
- How to stop spam
How to make your site look great with WordPress themes
- Themes and how can you use them
- How to install themes
- Recommended themes
How to add functionality to your site with WordPress plugins
- Overview of plugins
- How to install plugins
- 5 top WordPress plugins and what they do
- How to use plugins and widgets to improve your website’s functionality
Search Engine optimisation
- How to make sure your website is optimised for Search Engines
- Use ‘pretty url’s’ that will improve ‘click through’ rates
- Tagging and categorising your posts – how to do it and why it’s important
- How to add meta descriptions in your content to improve ranking
- Best practices when linking
Security
- How to make sure your WordPress website is secure
- How to back up your WordPress website
How to take advantage of the social web
- How to sharing your content on other social networks
- Auto-posting to Twitter
- Adding ‘Share’ buttons
- How to add a newsletter
- How to integrate your content with Twitter and Facebook
- How to add an online community to your website.
Following this training course, you will be able to:
- Create a WordPress website
- Use WordPress to manage your website content
- Integrate social media content into your WordPress website
- Promote your website
- Manage comments
- Understand WordPress themes, plugins and widgets
Course tutor
The WordPress training course is run by me Jamie Marsland. I’m the founder of Pootlepress. PootlePress are passionate about WordPress. I’ve trained over 2500 people on WordPress in the past 4 years, we have over 950 members to our online training Academy and our plugins are used by thousands of customers worldwide.
WordPress training course dates
| WordPress course Dates | Location | Places |
|---|---|---|
| January 15th | Online via Zoom | SOLD OUT |
| February 5th | Online via Zoom | SOLD OUT |
| March 11th | Online via Zoom | SOLD OUT |
| June 10th | Online via Zoom | SOLD OUT |
Book your place today
Select your date and venue below and click on the large ‘Book’ button. It will take you to Paypal to pay. If you don’t have a Paypal account you can pay as a guest via Paypal, with any credit or debit card.
If you can only pay via invoice please email jamie@pootlepress.co.uk to arrange payment.