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Learn how to create attractive, sophisticated blogs and websites without any coding! WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, powering more than 40 percent of all sites on the internet. WordPress is an easy-to-use solution that will help you put your site on the web in far less time than by coding – and at a much lower cost than hiring a professional. In these lessons, you get hands-on experience with this powerful tool as you create your own WordPress site and blog. Find out how to use WordPress to create pages and posts, add images and videos, change a site's look and feel and include user-friendly features. Discover the ease of using WordPress design themes to express your creativity, and you see how much fun it is to be part of the vibrant WordPress online community. In addition to mastering the technical elements of WordPress, you learn how to organize a blog or website, create appealing content, keep your site secure and achieve better positions on search engine results pages. By the end of this course, you are able to confidently use WordPress to create a blog or a personal, business or organizational website.

Course Objectives

Learn how to use WordPress to create pages and posts, add images and videos, change a site's look and feel and include user-friendly features.

Discover the ease of using WordPress design themes to express your creativity

Learn how to organize a blog or website, create appealing content, keep your site secure and achieve better positions on search engine results pages

Outline of Instruction

Explore the magic of WordPress and learn how to use it to create an attractive, dynamic blog or website without learning any special code. Find out what the two "flavors" of WordPress are and how to use the self-hosted WordPress.org version. Then, go online, sign up for a free hosting account and tour the WordPress Dashboard.

What can a blog do that a website can't? Blogging's become a popular way to establish an online presence. Discuss how adding a blog can make a traditional website more effective. Then, build a blog with WordPress by creating, refining and categorizing posts. Find out how to encourage and control visitor feedback.

Get the best of both worlds by combining a blog with a traditional website. Use WordPress to create and organize webpages, and learn how to convert your blog to a traditional website, or vice versa, with the click of a button.

Learn all about WordPress themes, the templates that give your website its look and feel. Discover how to choose a theme, install it and tweak it.

Photos, drawings, charts, videos and audio clips can make your website more appealing and understandable. Learn how to use WordPress to upload and insert images and multimedia files.

Plugins are little programs that add features to your WordPress website. Learn how to find and use them.

If your online visitors have trouble understanding or navigating your website, they'll go somewhere else. Learn how to pinpoint and eliminate usability problems.

We take a long, hard look at our class project and decide how to make it better. Create a front page featuring both static and dynamic content; add links to pages, documents, email and other sites; and repair typos, grammatical errors and other mistakes.

What if you launched a website and nobody came? Find out what makes search engines tick and how to get them to visit your pages.

Statistics are just a bunch of numbers if you don't know how to use them. Learn how to analyze stats so you can improve your site, and find out how to tie your WordPress pages into social sites like Facebook and X.

Learn how you can protect a WordPress site against hackers, and review money-making strategies for blogs and websites.

Tour the hosting control panel, discuss domain naming strategies and review where to get help after the course ends.

Contact Hours

24

CEUs

1

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

No

Prerequisites

N/A

Learning Supplies Needed

Hardware requirements:
This course can be taken on either a PC, a Mac or a Chromebook.

Software requirements:
PC: Windows 8 or later
Mac: macOS 10.6 or later
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge is preferred. Mozilla Firefox and Safari are also compatible.
WordPress.org requires a paid hosting account. You will receive instructions on how to sign up for an account.

Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account

Instructional material requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

N/A

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Student must past 10 quizzes or pass the final exam with 70% or better.

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

N/A

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

N/A

Industry or Job Titles Related to Training Outcomes for Employment

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Course Contact Information

Non-Credit Online Learning https://ceonline.waketech.edu
919-532-5847
[email protected]