Working With WordPress

One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is it’s innate ease-of-use. Anyone, even without a technical background of any kind, can produce great looking and effective website content using it’s in-built Content Management System.

The videos below take you through the WordPress basics, from creating pages to editing your navigation. You’ll find out how to work with images and how to organise your pages. Everything you need is included to become a WP whizz.

Digging a Little Deeper

Another great thing about WordPress is the huge community that surrounds it. It’s outside the scope of this course to look at things like custom themes, or getting deeper into the WordPress code, but, if you choose to, there’s a ton of great resources out there to help.

Start with the WordPress Codex – a ridiculously comprehensive set of documentation – and move on the to the WordPress Forums for more personal help. You’ll find everything you need there to expand your knowledge.

Course Index

  1. Domain Names
  2. Web Hosting
  3. Website Setup
  4. Website Design
  5. Logos and Headers
  6. Creating Content
  7. Site Maintenance

Tutorial 1: An Introduction to WordPress 3.5

This video introduces you to the different aspects of the WordPress 3.5 dashboard, and discusses the common point of confusion: what’s the difference between posts and pages?

Tutorial 2: Creating a WordPress Post

Here I show you how to create a post, how to do basic editing, how to add a link to a WordPress post and how to choose your categories.

Tutorial 3: Adding Images in WordPress Posts

The video takes you through how the media library works, including how to add images in WordPress posts and how to edit featured images in WordPress.

Tutorial 4: Setting up Pages in WordPress

This video shows you how to create a new page, and then how to arrange pages within your site so you have a good site structure and links appear correctly in the menus.

Tutorial 5: Creating and WordPress Navigation Menus

This video shows you how to set up your main WordPress navigation menu. It demonstrates how to add categories, how to add external links and how to edit the menu item text.