WordPress Maintenance Workshop

The WordPress platform is one of the most popular content management systems worldwide, the main problem for the micro enterprise sector is lack of understanding of what their sites are capable of and the importance of maintenance and security. If a WordPress site is not kept up to date with content and security it runs the risk of firstly not getting found and secondly being hacked.

Training and understanding is needed on any delivery of a website but often not offered. This leaves a business with a website that will start dating itself immediately, content becomes neglected as there is a fear of doing something wrong that will “break” their website. WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites. If you have a Wordpress site learn how to maintain and update it on this one day workshop.

We will help you get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress. This is a one day workshop where you login to your WordPress CMS and get the confidence to manage and promote areas of your website yourself.

• You MUST have a WordPress website already.
• You MUST have the login details to work on the website.
• You MUST have your own laptop for the training workshop.

Programme Goals, you will learn…

• Publishing posts and pages
• Using page templates
• Inserting images, video, and other media
• Editing posts
• Installing plugins
• Adding other users
• Securing your WordPress site
• Getting your site found - search engine optimisation
• Saving revision pages
• Backing up your site
• Back-end management of themes, plugins, and other assets

IMPORTANT NOTE: As this is a practical training workshop, you must bring your own laptop with you to the training.They will NOT be provided.