Course Overview
TOPOur proprietary curriculum has been proven effective in teaching [category short name] to thousands. You ll receive our extensive written reference along with lesson files for you to continue your practice following the class. This WordPress course includes a copy of our Digital Classroom book with many projects and exercises.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 07/21/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOP- Understand how to set up and manage a WordPress website
- Effectively navigate the WordPress administrative dashboard
- Choose, install, customize themes, and create child themes
- Create posts and pages with dynamic blog and site content
- Select and install plugins and widgets to extend website functionality
- Add, edit, and define user roles and permissions
- Improve a site s SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Back up a WordPress site and restore a site from a backup
- Create a development site for testing and move it to production
- Understand and use different content types
- Troubleshoot issues
- WordPress Security best practices
Outline
TOPGetting started with WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Custom installation
- One-click installation
- Logging in to WordPress
Exploring the WordPress dashboard
- Screen options
- Customizing your dashboard
- Editing your profile
- Logging out
Updating your WordPress installation
- Updating WordPress, plugins, and themes
Posts in WordPress
- Difference between posts and pages
- Creating a new post
- Using the editor
- Visual editor
- HTML editor
- Adding media
- Inserting a gallery
- Full-screen editing
- Autosave
- Categories
- Tags
- Using custom fields
- Previewing, publishing, and saving drafts
- Editing an existing post
- Quick edit
- Deleting a post
- Viewing a post
- Changing the status of a post
- Changing the visibility of a post
- Permalinks and shortlinks
Using Media in WordPress
- The library
- Scaling and cropping images in WordPress
- Media metadata
- Uploading media
- Seeing where media is being used
Adding Links in WordPress
- Adding links
- Link categories
Pages in WordPress
- Adding, editing, and deleting pages
- Page attributes
- Parent pages
- Templates
- Ordering pages
WordPress Comments
- Enabling and disabling comments
- Setting default behaviors for comments
- Viewing comment
- Comment approval process
- Dealing with spam
- Deleting comments
WordPress Themes and Appearance
- Managing themes
- Installing themes
- Widgets
- Menus
- Appearance Editor
- Editing the CSS files
WordPress Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Finding plugins
- Installing plugins
- Activating and deactivating plugins
- Editing plugin settings
- Deleting plugins
Users
- Adding, editing, and deleting users
- User roles and permissions
Tools
- Available tools
- Importing content from another site
- Exporting your WordPress data
WordPress Settings
- General settings
- Changing the site title and tagline
- Changing your URL
- Using a different homepage
- Updating the admin email address
- Changing time zones
- Date/Time formats
Writing settings
- Changing the post box size
- Using emoticons
- Changing the default post and link categories
- Post to your site via email
- Remote publishing
Reading settings
- Changing default page behaviors
Discussion settings
- Default article and comment settings
- Comment moderation settings
Media settings
- Image sizing
- Embedding media
- Changing the default folder for uploaded files
Privacy settings
- Permalink settings
- Photo Album configuration
Must have WordPress plugins
Exploring the default WordPress theme
Customizing the WordPress theme
Customizing WordPress themes
WordPress child themes
Theme customization using a web inspector tool
Using a drag-and-drop content builder
WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Backing-up WordPress sites
Restoring WordPress sites from a backup
Creating a development WordPress sites for testing
Understanding and using content types
Working with essential WordPress plugins
Troubleshooting WordPress issues
Planning a WordPress site
WordPress Q&A: Answering site-specific WordPress questions
Prerequisites
TOPAttendees should have a WordPress license as virtual labs are not provided
