Develop Your Own Website
Trainer: Emanuele Pristerà
This introductory course is designed for individuals with little or no prior experience in WordPress who want to learn how to create, update, and manage a basic website. The course focuses on practical usage of WordPress as a content management system (CMS), explaining concepts in clear, non-technical language.
Participants will be guided through the WordPress dashboard, learn how to create and edit pages and posts, and understand how themes and plugins are used to customise a website’s appearance and functionality—without coding. The course also introduces basic website structure, content organisation, and simple best practices for maintaining a WordPress site.
This course does not cover web development or programming and requires no technical background.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand what WordPress is and how it can be used to create websites
- Navigate the WordPress dashboard confidently
- Create, edit, and publish pages and posts
- Customise a website using themes without technical skills
- Install and manage basic plugins safely
- Maintain a simple WordPress website using best practices
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 79 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Module 1 - Introducing WordPress, and how to set it up12
- Module 2 - Create and manage posts and pages in WordPress22
- 2.1Summary
- 2.2Name of Subunits
- 2.3Creating a Post
- 2.4Adding New Categories
- 2.5Editing Categories
- 2.6Common Blocks
- 2.7The WordPress Sidebar
- 2.8Understanding Features
- 2.9Previewing Posts
- 2.10Post Options
- 2.11Post Tags
- 2.12Choosing the Main Website Page
- 2.13Editing a Page
- 2.14Parent Pages
- 2.15Publishing Pages
- 2.16Understanding the Media Repository
- 2.17The Media Library
- 2.18Editing Images
- 2.19Editing Instructions
- 2.20Updating Posts
- 2.21Video
- 2.22Presentation
- Module 3 - Manage Users Menus and Settings19
- 3.1Summary of Unit
- 3.2Name of Subunits
- 3.3Understanding Different Users
- 3.4Creating a User Manually
- 3.5User Details
- 3.6User Roles
- 3.7Editing Details
- 3.8Further Details
- 3.9Creating a Menu
- 3.10Add, edit and remove Menus
- 3.11Adding Pages to the Menu
- 3.12Editing Menu Items
- 3.13Update Settings in WordPress
- 3.14Changing Titles and Taglines
- 3.15Reading
- 3.16Discussion Settings
- 3.17Media Settings
- 3.18Video
- 3.19Presentation
- Module 4 - Themes and Plugins in WordPress26
- 4.1Summary
- 4.2Name of Subunits
- 4.3Understanding Themes
- 4.4Website Example One
- 4.5Colour Significance
- 4.6Using Different Styles
- 4.7Adding a New Theme
- 4.8Installing the Theme
- 4.9Solving Errors
- 4.10Adding CSS Code
- 4.11Previewing Results
- 4.12Reviewing Features
- 4.13Customizing Themes
- 4.14Being Creative
- 4.15Adding Widgets
- 4.16Exploring Widget Options
- 4.17Customizing Footers
- 4.18Using Plugins
- 4.19Searching for the Right Plugin
- 4.20Activating Plugins
- 4.21WP Fastest Cache Options
- 4.22Understanding File Transfer Protocol
- 4.23Upload a Theme via FTP
- 4.24Install a Plugin
- 4.25Video
- 4.26Presentation
- Quizzes1
