What Will I Learn?

• Be up and running managing and editing your own WordPress hosted website
• Create and edit posts and pages, format text, add images, add categories and tags, and publish or schedule your website’s content.
• Manage subscribers, contributors, authors, editors, and administrators for your website.
• Develop a solid beginner’s foundation in WordPress that you can use as a springboard towards more advanced web training or paid opportunities helping others get started editing and managing websites.
• Understand key settings, tools, and features of WordPress to enable you to control the look, feel, and function of your website.
• Easily create and manage menus and external links.
• Harness the power of the most useful plugins and widgets to extend your website’s capabilties.

Requirements

• Students should already have their WordPress login information and a WordPress hosted website set up before taking this course. (* I still provide information and external resources in a text lecture if you need to still get set up.)

Description

If you’re new to WordPress, start at the beginning and work through this WordPress for Beginners. This extensive course helps you get started easily with editing and managing your own WordPress website in 60 minutes or less. These step-by-step arranged and easy-to-follow modules will be ideal for complete beginners. Even if you already know a thing or two about WordPress, you can quickly jump to any topic you need help with this course.

This course shows you the most essential and important features of the WordPress dashboard and interface including making posts, pages, and managing all aspects of your WordPress hosted website. Also, learn to plan and organize websites, create online graphics and animations, HTML and CSS, adding Javascript, and making beautiful websites from scratch.

What Students Are Saying:

“If you haven’t started using WordPress for your site but would like to write content for it by yourself you should take this course. Excellent, no fluff explanations and perfectly presented.” -Matt S. Rinc
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I’m a tenured Associate Professor of Digital Media and the Program Director of Film & Digital Media at The American University of Rome and a practicing award-winning multimedia artist.
I have over 16 years of experience teaching students all over the world using my tried and true custom approach (turning complex information into something simple, memorable, easy-to-understand in as short amount of time as possible) to ensure that you get the most important, relevant, and useful information that can be applied immediately to your art, work, and everyday life.

New bonus lectures and resources will continue to be added and timely design advice will be provided in the discussion forum. I love to help and always respond to inquiries and discussions ASAP.

Please Note: All students who enroll in this course also will receive periodic free and discounted access to my other top-rated current and upcoming courses.

You have a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee with no questions asked so you have nothing to lose. I make myself available so you will have access to me if you have questions or need specific feedback along the way.Empower yourself now by enrolling in this easy to follow WordPress course and join our growing learning community! Click the “Take This Course” button in the upper right corner and let’s get started building your web design and content management skills today.

Who is the target audience?

• This course is ideal for complete beginners.
• This course is ideal for people who have a website that someone else made for them who would like to know how to begin to edit and manage it themselves.
• This course is ideal for those who have been tasked with editing their organization’s WordPress hosted website and don’t know where to start.
• Please note this is NOT an in-depth WordPress course. Students looking for intermediate to advanced WordPress training would be better off taking a longer, comprehensive course. (*Do please have a look at my other course offerings to see if I have a different course that is a better fit.)