Firstly, WordPress powers more than 26% of all websites according to W3Techs. WordPress is also open source, therefore you're able to fully customise it to your needs without pestering your web design agency.
WordPress has a user-friendly interface and is very suitable for non-technical users to create, customise, and maintain a professional, modern website.
Course Overview
In this 2-day WordPress hands-on website creation course, you will learn the foundations of building a website from nothing.
An individual demo website will be provided to you for a practical experience, which will also be available for you to take home for further practice.
This is an interactive course with 80% hands-on and 20% theory. Start creating something awesome with WordPress today!
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will:
✓ Be able to set up a domain name, web hosting account, and install WordPress into the server.
✓ Be able to customise the website appearance such as the header, logo, sidebar, footer, pages, etc.
✓ Be able to maintain the website through updating plugin/theme versions, backing up and migration, and editing content.
✓ Be able to implement basic security measures to secure the website from hackers.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to WordPress Module 2: Setting up domain name and web hosting Module 3: Installing WordPress into the server Module 4: Installing WordPress parent and child themes Module 5: Creating and customising a web page Module 6: Installing plugins Module 7: Creating a Contact Form Module 8: Creating the home page Module 9: Landing page best practices Module 10: Basic website SEO Module 11: Basic WordPress E-Commerce Module 12: Website backup and migration
Upon completion of this module course under WDA funding, students will receive Statement of Attainment (SOA) Certificates from WDA. The details of SOA of each module are given below. IT-NMM-401S-1 : Install and configure a Switch IT-NMM-402S-1 : Install Switches and Multi-Switched local area network