WordPress Training Courses in London
Learn to Build a Website with WordPress
In this one day WordPress training Course you will learn how to setup and maintain your own WordPress Website or blog, how to choose a theme and how to find the most important WordPress plugins and install them.
This is an interactive course and you will create a fully functional website by the end of the day. You will also learn how to host your own website. This allows you to practice your learnings and to further develop your website after the course. Furthermore, one month email support is also included.
This course is also offered on a one-to-one basis and can be scheduled as requested, subject to availability. For information and to book a course, please call or email us.
Upcoming WordPress Courses in London
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- Installation of WordPress
- Content creation in WordPress
- Theme selection for the blog
- Themes and Frameworks
- Tour of the WordPress Dashboard
- How to create, edit and publish a Post
- How to create, edit and publish a Page
- Uploading Media files (images and videos)
- Adding a map
- Site Monetisation
- Menu customisation
- Adding a pdf file to your site
- Setting up a PayPal Payment button on your site
- Adding Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn social sharing to your site
- Setting up a WordPress profile
- Fundamental On Page optimisation techniques
- WordPress plugins
- Categories and Tags and how to optimise them
- Adding widgets to your site
- Hosting the website – Step by step implementation
How WordPress can give you the Online Presence you seek
Having a website or a blog is incredibly important these days to create an online presence, whether for personal reasons or as a professional platform to highlight your work. There are plenty of options to choose from but out of the lot, WordPress stands tall.
Not only is WordPress an easy to manage CMS (Content Management System) that any MS Word user can easily update with new content. While WordPress is free, there are paid options that help you establish more credibility online. Throughout this piece, I’d like to outline why WordPress is the right CMS for you!
What is WordPress?
As mentioned, WordPress is a CMS which in “normal human terms” means it’s a platform where you can manage your content, whether blogs, pages or even videos. There are millions of WordPress pages, some of them on a “Free hosting” plan while others have paid options such as having your own .com, hosting, themes and more.
What are WordPress Themes?
WordPress has custom “themes” or designs that you can use. Under the Free accounts you are limited to a select few, you can’t do too much tweaking to them either. On the Premium themes you have much more functionality, plugins and so forth.
In WordPress you also have the ability to “custom build” your own themes. Most developers use a “premium theme” as a foundation(so they don’t have to re-program all the core coding for the website) and then build on that to create unique websites complete distinct from the original theme used.
Famous Brands that Use WordPress
Since WordPress is free for the most part many people assume that “Big Brands” steer clear from the platform but the truth is quite the opposite. Big names such as The Rolling Stones and Justin Timberlake use WordPress as their CMS.
As you can see their websites look 100% original, not even a trace of “wordpress” can be found. This is because WordPress allows you to use their infrastructure and create a unique looking website in terms of aesthetics and functionality.
Advantages of using WordPress
Below are a few advantages that you can obtain from using wordpress:
- It’s FREE! – If you don’t have a lot of money to invest you can use the free option. It has very little hosting but still does a fantastic job of managing your content.
- Cheap and Easy Upgrades – Let’s say you need to have more options on your website, you can pick and choose options to upgrade your website as your budget expands. It’s as easy as click and play
- Great Rankings – WordPress has great reputation in search engines. Many competitive keywords are ranked through WordPress sites.
The list goes on!
How to get into the WordPress game?
If you want to get into becoming an expert WordPress user you might want to brush up on the techniques and tricks to make it the best WordPress site on the internet. In this course we will teach you everything you need to know from:
- Installing
- Content Creation
- Theme Selection
- Plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Much more!
This one-day course in London will give you the tools you need to produce killer WordPress sites in no time. It’s a very valuable skill to learn whether you simply want to have a personal blog that looks good, or to showcase your professional skills online.
10 reasons why WordPress is a great CMS for building Websites
As of August 2011, “14.7% of the top million websites in the world’’ are handled by WordPress. WordPress is praised by web designers and web developers for the ease that it provides and how it is user friendly! Being fairly simple to use, WordPress is still thought of as the best CMS platform that is suitable for blogs and business websites. New themes and layouts are available on the website for the users to choose from.
Here are top 10 reasons why Word Press proves to be a great platform for building websites:
Features
Although WordPress has proven to be super easy to use and handle over the past years, there has been no compromise on the number of features that they have to offer! In fact, the list of features at WordPress has increased exponentially over the last few years and it has steadily become more powerful with no sacrifice made in usability.
Theme Selection
There are a number of templates and themes for the users to choose from on WordPress. In addition to most of them being completely free, you can also choose themes that provide construction kits for your convenience and preference.
SEO made easy
There is no denying the fact that WordPress is SEO friendly. It provides us with features such as the ability to generate our own URLs that are search-friendly. There are various SEO packs available on this platform that can help the users to create good SEO discipline on their contents and websites.
Plug-ins
On WordPress most plugins can be installed, downloaded, and configured in just a short matter of time. It is fairly easy to find a free plugin that works perfectly well. WordPress has proved to be cost effective and flexible for all its users over the years.
Open Source
WordPress is an open source that is supported by the worldwide community. It is easily accessible to its users as it can be freely downloaded, installed and then used according to one’s own preferences. These features have made Word Press extremely cost-effective!
Easy to Use
One of the best things about WordPress is that you don’t have to be a high tech genius to be able to operate it. Anyone who’s thinking of starting up a home based business can make use of this great Content Management System that could help them along their way!
Cost-effective
If not for WordPress, it would have been much harder to manage content and websites at such cheap rates! Word Press is a powerful CMS that is open to whatever the users require mostly!
Possibilities
WordPress started off by being known primarily as the best platform for blogs. With time, Word Press has proved to be the best solution for CMS. This platform has proved to be extremely adaptable as well as flexible for its users and the possibilities available are limitless!
Customisation
As mentioned earlier, there are already formed customised templates for websites available on Word Press. Users can edit their website content without any problems without any boundaries!
User Interface
One of the best features that Word Press provides is User Interface. Users can easily navigate through the features that have been provided by this platform without any sort of difficulties.