WordPress training

In this section you will find WordPress training resources on helping you manage your own website. These posts are in order of simplest to most complex (the order in which we would suggest learning).


What is WordPress and why should you use it?

This video is my general introduction to WordPress, covering basic topics like why choose WordPress and what is WordPress.

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What is WordPress

WordPress is free software that enables people to manage their own blogs and websites. Check out the video for more on what is WordPress.

Why choose WordPress?

The video identifies 3 main reasons for choosing WordPress including the fact that WordPress is free, it’s really simple and it’s popular (which as benefits).

 

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Adding and editing pages in WordPress

This is one of the first things people will want to do once they take over ownership of their websites, modify existing pages and create new ones. Luckily it’s super easy check out this video.

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WordPress menus

Once you’ve mastered pages, you’ll want to know how to manage the menus in your site. WordPress menus are fairly straight forward particularly with the new menu features introduced in WordPress 3.

There are 2 ways of working with menus in WordPress. In this video I run through both options.

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I would suggest where possible when setting up WordPress menus, to use the newer method which is the inbuilt menu manager.

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Blog posts in WordPress – WordPress blogging

If you are going to be using your WordPress website for blogging (which we highly recommend) you’ll need to get up to speed on ‘posts’ in WordPress.

WordPress blogging is where it all started. These days it’s considered a great simple content management system (CMS) but WordPress started out as a blogging platform and it remains one of if not the world’s best blogging system.

This video shows you the basics on posts and using WordPress as a blogging platform.

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Contact forms in WordPress – Contact form 7

Having contact forms in your website is essential. With WordPress I have found the easiest way to set up simple contact form is by using a plugin called Contact Form 7.

It enables you to simply create contact forms and other forms and embed them into posts and pages within WordPress.

In this video I run through how to add and edit a simple contact form with the plugin Contact Form 7.

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To install Contact Form 7 just search for ‘Contact Form 7′ in the WordPress plugins area.

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