Wordpress

The WordPress course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation on how to fully set-up and utilise Wordpress using a step-by-step guide. It is suitable to people of any technical skill level and is filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises. You will learn about basic Search Engine Optimise and the best Wordpress plug-ins (add-ons) to use for marketing and promoting your website. By the end of the first day you will have a fully functional professional website that is content managed using WordPress.

• Buy a domain
• Find a web hosting provider
• Download and Install Wordpress
• Create, Edit and Delete the content on your new website
• Theme your website so it looks professional
• How to easily Search Engine Optimise your website
• How to install plug-ins and which plug-in to choose to make your
• website more effective

Lesson 1 Introduction to Blogging

• History of WordPress
• Hosting & Domain Providers
• Installing WordPress - Step by Step Guide

Lesson 2 Post Installation Steps Installing Plug-ins

• Installing Plug-ins - Step by Step Guide
• A list of highly recommended Plug-ins

Lesson 3 Upgrading WordPress Marketing

• Analytics
• Feedburner
• Sitemaps
• Google Keyword Tool

Lesson 4 Other

• Microbloggin (twitter)
• Blogging for business
• WordPress as a CMS

Lesson 5 Resources

• A list of other resources for further reading