{"id":101,"date":"2016-03-12T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/?p=101"},"modified":"2024-01-15T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T11:16:07","slug":"wordpress-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wordpress-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has become *the* content management system of choice around the world, powering a large proportion of popular websites. It\u2019s free, open source, easy to use and great to develop for. As such, it\u2019s an ideal tool for museums, galleries and non-profits \u2013 and provides the means to create beautiful, easily maintainable sites.<\/p>\n<p>This course \/ workshop is a perfect starting point for novices who are looking to set up a site using WordPress or have been given the responsibility of editing an existing site and want to understand how to make it work better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>might be a content person, a marketing person, a curator \u2013 or maybe just starting out doing some work on the web<\/li>\n<li>want to understand how to create a simple, functional, easy-to-edit site for your institution<\/li>\n<li>don\u2019t need to be technical \/ a geek! On this course we won\u2019t get into any coding \u2013 everything we do will be within the WordPress dashboard, which is all point and click.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Course Outline<\/h2>\n<p><i>Hours\u00a01 &amp; 2: introduction<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting started<\/li>\n<li>Understanding the difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hosting and installation<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hours 3 &amp; 4: writing content<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting WordPress ready: posts, pages, comments<\/li>\n<li>Editing<\/li>\n<li>Managing comments: moderation<\/li>\n<li>Using the Media Library: photos, documents, video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hours 5 &amp; 6: making your site look and work differently\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Themes<\/li>\n<li>Templates<\/li>\n<li>Plugins<\/li>\n<li>Widgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hours\u00a07 &amp; 8: managing your site<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backing your site up<\/li>\n<li>Keeping things up to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has become *the* content management system of choice around the world, powering a large proportion of popular websites. It\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wordpress.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trainingdigital.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}