Online WordPress Training Course Overview
Our 2-day comprehensive WordPress training course will equip computer literate individuals with no web design or coding experience with knowledge and skills to design a complete professional WordPress website on their harddrives from scratch.
WordPress is free and open source software (FOSS).
Target Audience
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This course is aimed at:
- Those who want to save on designing a website or making changes to a website
- Those who have developed websites using Frontpage or Dreamweaver
- Those who want to move their static or Joomla or Wix or Weebly website to WordPress
- Those who want to know what WordPress is all about
- Those who want to be in control of their website
- Those who want a mobile-friendly/responsive website
Course Prerequisites
The only prerequisite is that you must be computer literate. We assume that you start the course with no web design or WordPress experience. Programming/coding knowledge is not required.
Online Training Requirements
You are required to have a laptop, Mac or PC
You require at least a LTE/4G connection and 1GB of bandwidth for a 3-hour session.
The use of a headset is recommended to block out unwanted noise and distractions.
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Course Duration and Time
Duration: 2 days
Times: 9:00 – 13:00
Brief WordPress Training Course Outline
Below is a brief course outline.
- Module 1: Open Source Software
- Module 2: About WampServer
- Module 3: Creating a WordPress Website
- Module 4: Dashboard Login
- Module 5: The WordPress Interface
- Module 6: Changing WordPress Settings
- Module 7: About Plugins
- Module 8: The Page Screen
- Module 9: Creating Web Pages
- Module 10: Creating Posts
- Module 11: Creating a Menu
- Module 12: Inserting Hyperlinks
- Module 13: About Shortcodes
- Module 14: Adding a Photo Gallery
- Module 15: Creating a Contact Form
- Module 16: About Widgets and Sidebars
- Module 17: WordPress Themes
- Module 18: Inserting an Image Slider
- Module 19: Adding Social Media Buttons
- Module 20: Styling the Home Page
- Module 21: Optimising Images
- Module 22: Adding Page Elements
- Module 23: Adding Font Awesome Icons
- Module 24: Inserting A Google Map
- Module 25: WordPress Web Security
- Module 26: Backing Up the Website
What You Will Get
In addition to the 2 days of training, your course fee includes the following:
- A detailed graphical step-by-step manual.
- Two months of free online support on what has been covered on the course.
- A digital Certificate of Attendance.
- The plugins, theme, and WordPress to start designing your website.
- 20 Professional themes.
- A guide on how to duplicate your live WordPress website on your harddrive
- Infographic on 50 features every website must have.
- We will register a .co.za or .org.za domain in your name for which we will pay for the first year. The cost is R100.00 per year thereafter. This you can pass on to a colleague or friend if you have already a registered domain. However, the offer must be taken up within 2 months of the course end date.
- We will host a .co.za or .org.za domain for 3 months at no cost to you on our Bronze package which has 1GB webspace. Thereafter it will be R25.00 per month. This you can pass on to a colleague or friend if you have already a registered domain. However, the offer must be taken up within 2 months of the course end date.
- Create 5 e-mail addresses. The participant will be responsible to set up the e-mail addresses on their laptops or computers.
- Sign up your website with Google Analytics and Google Search Console. You will get a weekly report on visitors to your, webspace, popular web pages, the time they spend on your website, the number of web pages they read.
- For those with WordPress websites, we will provide a report on your website within one month of your attendance focussing on the following:
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- The speed of your website
- Checking if there are any broken links
- Checking the DNS settings (SPF, DMARC, DKIM, rDNS) which can have an impact on e-mail deliverability. Your e-mails might bounce or marked as spam if the settings are not correct.
- Checking if your IP or domain might be blacklisted.
Course Venues & Dates
At the moment we are in uncertain times. As much as we have a schedule, we are not sure if the lockdown will be extended. The below are tentative dates
| Course Dates | 25% OFF if you register & pay before or on this date |
| 28 & 29 July 2020 | 10 July 2020 |
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