Workshop: WordPress & Blogging 101 by Denise Alicea
WordPress & Blogging 101
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. It’s used on many hosting companies from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. It also has a free option via wordpress.com. Just like all technology it looks like it has a lot of perks, but how do you learn them all? Lots of options become scary and complicated! Who has time to learn for something new? Don’t know all the resources or who to go to? Then this is the perfect class for you!
Day One: Introductions
Day Two: Know Your Resources/Where to Start/hosting/wordpress.com
Hosting companies that offer wordpress for a fair price
What does wordpress.com offer?
Day Three: The WordPress Dashboard
Logging into your account
Managing Comments
Tracking statistics
Customizing the dashboard’s appearance
Updating your personal settings and profile
Updating general settings
Day Four: Themes & Customization
How to I customize my page?
What are themes? Where can I get them?
Learning how to customize a header.
Custom fonts
Day Five: Plugins
What are plugins?
What plugins can offer and where to get them.
Day Six: Writing a post or a Page.
How to add a post and what is quick press?
Adding links
What are categories and tags?
Scheduling a post
Copy/pasting a post
Day Seven: Adding and Managing Media
How to add a photo
How to add a video
Adding pdfs, .doc, etc.
How to manage your media
Day Eight: Working with Link Lists
Adding links
Managing links
Day Nine & Ten: Questions and Answers
RWA Members $15 Non- Members $25
To register: http://www.scriptscene.org/wordpress-blogging-101-by-denise-alicea/
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