Creating a website with WordPress
Your website needs to evolve alongside your content. Take control of structure and publishing with WordPress to organise your online presence more effectively. Become more self-sufficient in managing your website and working with technical specialists.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- TN001FR Code
Presentation
WordPress is a highly flexible, easy-to-use solution for creating a high-quality professional website. This free, open-source content management system (CMS) offers extensive customisation options through themes and plugins.
With its intuitive administration interface for managing content, WordPress supports many types of websites, including blogs, business websites and online stores. Its features are designed to meet individual user needs and require no programming knowledge.
This 3-day course develops the practical skills needed to create, manage and customise a website with the WordPress CMS. It covers essentials such as installing and configuring WordPress, creating pages and using themes and plugins. You will gain a clear understanding of how it works and learn to build your own professional website.
Objectives
By the end of this WordPress course, you will be able to:
- create and manage a professional website with WordPress.
Program
Day 1:
- Choosing your domain name and hosting (solutions and challenges).
- Registering your trademark.
- Installing WordPress locally or online.
- Getting started with the WordPress dashboard.
- Configuring the main administration settings.
- Structuring your website and creating pages.
- Understanding the difference between a page and a post.
- Creating posts.
- Creating the main menu.
- Adding illustrations.
- Using the WordPress Gutenberg editor.
Day 2:
- Selecting a theme from the WordPress library.
- Exploring your theme.
- Configuring theme settings.
- Creating a child theme.
- Selecting your illustrations.
- Using an image library.
- Customising the theme.
- Importing page templates with the Spectra plugin.
- Editing blocks with the Gutenberg editor.
- Editing blocks with Spectra.
Day 3:
- Using Gutenberg to add a Google Map.
- Creating a contact form using Gutenberg or the Contact Form and WPForms plugins.
- Using WordPress shortcodes.
- Creating a blog page.
- Resolving multilingual issues.
- Creating a post loop with a category filter within a page.
- Installing and configuring a maintenance plugin.
- Installing and configuring an optimisation plugin.
- Installing and configuring a security plugin.
- Getting your website indexed by search engines (solutions and challenges).
- Installing and configuring a WordPress migration plugin.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- anyone wishing to create a WordPress website, including craftspeople, retailers, artists, business owners and self-employed professionals.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
- practical professional experience using office productivity tools such as Word, Excel and Outlook;
- confidence browsing the internet and installing web browser extensions.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
Course highlights
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