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WordPress Web Design

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WordPress training courses

At Viwproject we offer training and courses in WordPress locally here in Victoria BC. With our approach to website design and our years of experience running small businesses our classes are available to be customized to fit your needs in the digital world of marketing. We want your business to succeed in understanding how to build and maintain a website with WordPress.

Not sure if this WordPress training course is right for you? Contact us to find out if this course is right for your small business!

wordpress Training

About This Course

Duration: 6 hrs

Course Outline


  1. Getting Started with WordPress
    • What is WordPress and its advantages
  2. Setting up WordPress
    • Logging in WordPress admin area
    • Familiarize with the WordPress Dashboard
    • Editing the user profile
    • Configuring the Dashboard settings
  3. Adding the right content to your WordPress site
    • About posts and pages
    • Difference between pages and posts
    • Creating pages
    • Organizing page hierarchy
    • Creating a static front page
  4. Blogging with WordPress
    • Creating posts
    • Text formatting in a new post
    • Creating and managing links
    • Adding Images, YouTube Videos and Audio
    • Adding an image gallery
    • Adding post categories, tags and other elements
  5. Customizing WordPress
    • Installing and activating themes
    • Exploring the themes option
    • Installing plugins and using them
    • Info about various widgets and working with them
    • Setting up custom background and header images
    • Creating custom menus and custom widgets
  6. Launching Your WordPress Site and After
    • Submitting the site to search engines
    • Managing WordPress users and permission levels
    • Managing comments and controlling spam
    • Backing up a WordPress site
    • Restoring a WordPress site from crash
    • Search Engine Optimization (SEO Overview)
    • Adding social media options like Facebook, twitter and many more.

Duration: 6 hrs

About:

This advanced course is for those who are already comfortable building WordPress sites but are looking to extend or create more advanced WordPress sites. It will provide a deeper understanding of WordPress capabilities and maintenance.

Course Outline


  1. Plugins
  • Installing and Configuring a Backup Plugin
  • Installing and Configuring a Visual Composer Plugin
  • Installing and Configuring an Events Plugin
  1. Intermediate Social Media
  • Installing the Facebook Plugin and Configuration
  • Using the Facebook Widget on Pages, Posts and Widget Areas
  • Installing the Instagram Plugin and Configuration
  • Using the Instagram Widget on Pages, Posts and Widget Areas
  1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Introduction to WordPress SEO
  • Base Configuration of SEO in WordPress
  • HTML Title and Header Tags
  1. Extending SEO with Yoast SEO
  • Installing the Yoast SEO Plugin
  • Optimizing the Yoast SEO Settings
  • Setting up Keyword Analysis
  • Yoast SEO and XML Sitemap

  1. Google Analytics
  • Introduction to Google Analytics
  • Installing the Google Analytics Plugin
  • Analytics and the WordPress Dashboard