Introduction to editing your wordpress website
Event Date:
April 27, 2022
Event Time:
9:30 am
Event Location:
Online - Zoom
Introduction to editing your wordpress website
Do you have a wordpress website, but no idea how to edit it, or add blog posts? This half day online course will get you started on making changes and adding to your site. Each student will have access to their own dedicated website where they can practise new skills without the fear of breaking a live website.
Course Outline
You will learn how to log onto your website and make basic updates and changes using the WordPress editor.
The course will cover creating new blog posts, adding and updating pages, and making changes to the website menu structure, and also an introduction to using the wordpress block editor.
This is a hands on course. During the course you will given access to a test website where you can practise each of the skills as we learn them.
Course Program
1. Introduction to the wordpress dashboard
- Logging onto the wordpress dashboard
- Introduction to relevant dashboard areas, such as posts, pages, menus & themes
2. Blog Posts
- How to add a new blog post
- Creating content using the WordPress block editor – headings, paragraphs, images and hyperlinks
- Adding categories and tags
- Adding a featured image
- Previewing, publishing and updating posts
- Quickedit
3. Website Pages
- How to add a new page
- Creating content using the WordPress block editor – headings, paragraphs, images and hyperlinks
- Previewing, publishing and updating pages
- Quickedit
- Creating a page hyierachy
- Page history and undoing a screw-up
4. Using the wordpress block editor to edit your Pages
- How to access the wordpress block editor
- Adding items to a page such as paragraphs, headings images
- Simple styling
- Moving items around
- Other ways to edit your pages using plugins
5. Changing the Main menu
- Where to find the menus
- Adding items to the main menu
- Creating a sub-menu
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will know how to log on to your wordpress website. You will be able to add and edit block posts, and make changes to the menu structures of your site.
You will need to pay a set fee per participant at the time of booking. You can cancel without penalty provided you give us no less than 7 days’ written notice by email to sarah@smallbusinesswebsupport.co.uk prior to the date of the workshop. For all teaching carried out remotely, all participants will need to ensure they have an adequate internet connection. We cannot be held responsible and no refunds will be given for connectivity or other issues outside of our control. Full terms and conditions are available on request.
The course will be carried out using the Zoom conferencing software. You will need a device capable of running the Zoom software, and have this set up in advance with an account created. Please see https://zoom.us/, or contact me for more details in advance of the course. Your device will need to a microphone, speaker or headphones, and webcam or camera. This is an interactive course , with hands-on execrcises. In order to partcipate in these exercises you will need access to a laptop or desktop pc running a web browser such as chrome or firefox, and you will find the course much easier if you have an external mouse.
This is a beginners course, however you should be familiar with opening a web browser such as chrome or firefox and entering a web address.
The course will be given using WordPress 5.7. I always recommend that people keep their WordPress software up to date , however the knowledge given will be appropriate for version 5 websites. You should be aware that the dashboard for older version sites will look slightly different.