WordPress in a Day Training Course
WordPress in a Day is a one day hands-on training course designed for people who want to learn to build their own website in WordPress in just one day!
- What is WordPress? The basics of how websites work and how WordPress can help.
- Fundamental concepts – what are themes, plugins and widgets?
- Setting up a WordPress site
- Publishing content to your website – how to add and amend content, adding links, images and more.
- Customising the look of your website – using themes and customising them to get the ‘look’ you want
- Adding new functions to your website by installing plugins
- Making your website ready for search engines – the importance of the title tag, using WordPress for SEO, tracking your results using Google Analytics
- Integrating social media into your site – pulling in Facebook & Twitter feeds, posting from WordPress to social media
- Keeping WordPress safe – upgrades, security, passwords and spam.
Learn from the professionals
We work with WordPress every day and have developed dozens of WordPress sites – including this one! Alex Culshaw, the ‘Wordpress in a Day’ course tutor, is Ascendancy’s Web Designer.
Upcoming dates for 2012 are:
- Tuesday 22nd May 2012
- Wednesday 20th June 2012
- Thursday 19th July 2012
The course fee is £175+VAT, which is payable two weeks before the course date, or on booking, if you book less than two weeks before the course. This includes all course materials and lunch.
Download Course Programme (PDF)
What people have said about ‘WordPress in a Day’:
“You’ve demystified WordPress for me and given me the confidence to make more of my website in a relaxed and informative way. Many thanks.” Kay Heald
“Thank you for your patience and help. You were great!” Ruth Lyon
“This course is brilliant – just what I needed to sort out my website. Very enjoyable and easy to follow. Explained really clearly.” Sue Christian
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