Getting Started: Learn WordPress Basics – Part 1

This class helps absolute beginners learn WordPress and will help you with the very basics, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• What functions does my site need to perform?
• Do I need a blog?
• Can I have a WordPress Site without a blog?
• Do I have to use sidebars on my site, or can I just have them on pages that I choose?
• What are Widgets, and how do I use them?
• How do I customize my site menu?
• What are plugins and when should I use them?
• What is a theme, and how do I choose the best one for my site?
• What basic pages should my site have?
• How can I add a contact form to my site?
• Where can I find plugins and themes for my site?

Basic Site Updates

• How do I add images to my site pages or blog posts?
• If I have a blog, how often should I post a new article?
• How do I edit text in the header or footer of my site?
• How do I add video or other media to my site?
• How can I create a link in a post or page?
• How can I make changes to or add formatting to text on my site?

Basic Site Maintenance and SEO

• How do I add a new user account?
• How do I install and update plugins?
• How can I change or update my theme?
• What are some basic things that I can do to make sure my site shows up in a web search?

WordPress and Social Media

• How can I link to my social media accounts from my WordPress site?
• How can I encourage people to share my content?
• Which social media accounts are best to sign up for?

 What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our how to video clips and WordPress guides for beginners.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Learn WordPress Basics – Part 2

This class for beginning to intermediate WordPress users will help you with the fundamentals of WordPress answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• How do I choose a web hosting company?
• How do I navigate the WordPress admin dashboard?
• Where can I find my site’s screen options?
• How do I configure the WordPress settings?
• How do I change my website’s appearance?
• How do I configure my theme options?
• What are permalinks and how do I set my site’s URL structure?
• What is a visual site builder and how do I use one to make building my site easier?
• How do I configure basic WordPress plugins?
• How can I create and add an advanced custom form to my site?
• How can I customize my site’s header and footer?
• How can I create a custom slider on my website?
• How do I create a photo gallery?
• How can I create a portfolio page on my website?
• How can I create and place a custom widgetized area on my website?
• How can I create and place a custom menu on my website?
• How can I create a sitemap for my website?

Site Updates

• How do I build and modify my site home page?
• How do I build and modify site subpages?
• How can I build and modify blog posts?
• What is the ‘kitchen sink’ and how do I find and use it?
• How can I create private content?
• How can I add and modify media on my website?
• How can I configure my site’s widgets?
• How can I create and modify custom links on my site?
• How do I moderate comments on my posts?
• Can comments be disabled?

Site Maintenance and SEO

• How can I schedule site posts?
• How can I use page templates to make adding new content easier?
• How can I use plugins to enhance my website’s SEO?
• How do I find and use the best focus keywords for my industry?
• How can I manage users on my site?

WordPress and Social Media

• How can I add social media buttons or sharing to my website?
• How can I link my blog to my social media accounts to share site content with my followers?
• How can I schedule and share content across platforms?
• How can I show my social media content on my website?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

WordPress Plugins – Part 1

This class for beginning to intermediate WordPress users will help you with plugins for WordPress answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• There are so many plugins available. How do I decide which ones to use?
• Where can I find plugins for my site?
• How do I configure basic plugin settings?
• Is there a basic set of plugins that you recommend for general use?

Site Updates

• How important is it really to update my plugins?
• How often do plugins need updated?
• Can plugin updates really mess up my website?

Site Maintenance and SEO

• How can I use plugins to enhance my website’s SEO?
• What are the best SEO solutions for WordPress?

WordPress and Social Media

• What are the best plugins to use for social media sharing and linking?
• Are there plugins that make coordinating social media platforms easier?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

WordPress Plugins – Part 2

This class for intermediate to advanced WordPress users will help you with professional level plugins for WordPress answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• How can I white label my WordPress website?
• How can I use plugins to make custom fields easier to use?
• What kinds of visual builders are available and how can I use them to streamline building my website?
• What custom configuration of plugins will help me better serve my particular site users?

Site Updates

• How can I update my plugins using FTP?
• Are there plugins to make site updates easier?

Site Maintenance and SEO

• What kind of advanced SEO features are available?
• Should I use different SEO plugins for social media, images, and pages?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our intermediate and advanced how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Customizing WordPress Using CSS and Child Themes

This class for intermediate to advanced WordPress users will help you with customizing WordPress using CSS and Child Themes, answering questions such as:

Site Configuration

• What is a child theme, and how can I create and use one?
• What are the benefits of using a child theme?
• How can I use custom CSS to modify my site’s colors or font formatting that is not easily changed through my site’s theme options?
• How can I use CSS to modify line spacing and other design elements on my website.
• How can I use CSS to hide elements on a page?
• How can I use CSS to change my site’s mobile appearance?

Site Updates

• I made several customizations to my WordPress theme, but when I updated my theme, all of my changes were overwritten. How can I prevent this from happening again?
• How can I update my theme with a child theme installed?

Site Maintenance

• How will using a child theme change the way I maintain my site?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner, intermediate, and advanced how to video clips, WordPress guides, and developer resources.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Customizing WordPress With Functions and Custom Post Types

This class for intermediate to advanced WordPress users will help you with customizing WordPress using plugins and your functions.php, answering questions such as:

Site Configuration

• What is a custom post type, and how can I create and use one?
• What are the benefits of using custom post types?
• How can I use my functions.php file to make changes to my site’s functionality that is not easily changed through the WordPress settings or through my site’s theme options?
• How can I create customized page templates for my website?

Site Updates

• I made several customizations to my functions.php file, but when I updated my WordPress theme, all of my changes were overwritten. How can I prevent this from happening again?
• How can I update my site while using a custom functions.php?

Site Maintenance

• How will using a custom functions.php file change the way I maintain my site?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner, intermediate, and advanced how to video clips, WordPress guides, and developer resources.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Customizing WordPress for Mobile

This class for beginning to intermediate WordPress users will help you with Customizing WordPress for mobile browsers, answering questions such as:

Site Configuration

• How can I make my site more responsive?
• What are the best responsive WordPress themes?

Site SEO

• Does having a responsive website give me better SEO?
• Has google really made responsive websites come up first in search results?

Responsive Web Design

• What does it mean to have a responsive website?
• My website shrinks to fit the viewport window. Is that what you mean by responsive design?
• How important is it really to have a responsive website?
• What percentage of people actually use the internet on a mobile device?
• My current site is not responsive. How can I make the changes I need to make my site more easily visible on mobile devices?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginning and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

WordPress Backups and Site Migration

This class for advanced WordPress users will help you with backing up WordPress and/or migrating your site, answering questions such as:

Site Backups

• My website was hacked and I didn’t have
• How can I create a backup of my WordPress website?
• I noticed that there are several plugins for site backups. Which one should I use?

Site Migration

• I have decided to change web hosting companies. How can I move my WordPress site without having to start over from scratch?
• My current hosting solution is no longer working for me. How can I choose the best plan or service for my needs?
• What are the WordPress Tools and how do I use them?
• Can I import posts and pages from another WordPress site?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner, intermediate, and advanced how to video clips, WordPress guides, and developer resources.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Securing WordPress

This class for intermediate to advanced WordPress users will help you with securing your WordPress website, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• I have heard that WordPress is not a very secure platform and that I shouldn’t use it. Is that true?
• How can I configure my WordPress site to make it more secure?
• What plugins can I use to make my site more secure?
• Do site malware scan plugins really work to prevent attacks?

Preventing Security Breaches

• My site doesn’t have much web traffic, so who would even want to hack it?
• Do I really need to use strong passwords?
• How can I prevent my site from getting hacked?
• Are some web hosting companies more secure than others?
• How can I require admin users on my site to change their passwords regularly?
• Can I make site users use strong passwords?

What to do if Your Site is Hacked

• What steps should I take to clean up my hacked website?
• Should I use a site backup on the server to restore my site after being hacked?
• Will my site continue to be a target after being hacked?
• Should I change web hosting plans?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Graphic Design for WordPress

This class for beginning, intermediate, and advanced WordPress users will help you with graphics for your WordPress website, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• For crisp graphics, the bigger the file the better, right?
• How can I configure my images to make them more optimized for my WordPress site?
• What plugins can I use to make organizing images easier?
• What gallery plugins are available and which one will work best for my site?

Optimizing Images

• What is the best resolution or dpi for my web graphics?
• What size should my images be to look good and still download fast?
• Are there plugins for optimizing images for WordPress?
• How can I size and crop a large number of images at once?
• What is the best way to share graphics with my designer?
• Can I make a small image bigger?

Using Graphics Online

• My site is small, so do I really need to observe copyright law, or can I just snag some relevant images off of a Google search?
• What are the basics of copyright law?
• Can I just use images from the creative commons?
• Do I have to take all of my own pictures to avoid copyright issues?
• What are some good places where I can legally find images online?
• What are image alt tags and how important is it to use them?

Basics of Graphic Software

• How important are professional quality graphics to my website as long as I have all the information on the page?
• Do I need to buy a licence for the Adobe Creative Suite?
• How can I use my graphics application to customize images for the web?
• What are the best graphics tools to use?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Building an eCommerce Website with WordPress

This class for Intermediate to advanced WordPress users will help you with building an eCommerce website with WordPress, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• Is it important to use a them that is configured for eCommerce?
• I am new to selling online. How complicated is it to set up an eCommerce shop?
• What eCommerce solutions are available to use with WordPress?
• What kinds of things can I sell online with WordPress?
• Can I sell virtual or downloadable products?
• Can I sell streaming video or online courses?
• Can I sell event tickets?
• Can I sell a mixture of product types on my WordPress site?
• Can I accept donations or have customers make custom payments on my WordPress site?
• Can I configure products with variables?
• What is a payment gateway and how do I decide which one is best for my online store?
• How do I configure payment gateways to allow customers to use credit cards on my site?
• How can I configure shipping options on my website?
• Do I need to charge sales tax?
• How do I set configure and charge sales tax on my website?
• Can I feature products, or set up cross sells or up-sells?
• Can I offer coupons?
• Can I offer subscriptions with recurring payments?

Shop Maintenance and SEO

• Are there special considerations for SEO and my WordPress online storefront?
• How do I update multiple products at once?
• How can I create custom shop pages?
• Can I email customers who purchased something from my website?
• How can I set up email integration and send out an email campaign?
• How can I see what my best selling items are and manage my inventory?

WordPress and Social Media

• Can I integrate social media sharing in my WordPress shop pages?
• Can I create coupon codes that will allow people who like or follow me on social media to earn a discount or free product?
• What type of social media account will be best to integrate into my shop?

 What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginning to intermediate how to eCommerce video clips and WordPress guides.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

SEO and Your WordPress Website

This class for beginning, intermediate, and advanced WordPress users will help you with SEO best practices for WordPress, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• What is SEO and how can I configure my WordPress site to be more SEO friendly?
• SEO sounds very complicated with all the keywords and meta tags. How can I make it easier?
• What plugins are available to make SEO on my WordPress site more manageable?

SEO Basics

• How can I decide which keywords to use in my website?
• Do I need to have a lot of back-links and reciprocal links to have good SEO?
• What is keyword spamming and how can I avoid it?
• How do search engines index websites, and how can I get my site closer to the top in search results?
• Does website age play into good SEO?
• How does responsiveness play into my website SEO?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!

Multimedia for WordPress

This class for beginning, intermediate, and advanced WordPress users will help you with multimedia graphics for your WordPress website, answering questions about:

Site Configuration

• How can I embed or link video on my website?
• How can I configure my videos to not play related videos at the end?
• Can I make videos or other multimedia files open in a popup or a lightbox?
• What plugins are available to make playing videos on my site easier?
• Should I have my videos or music auto play on page load?

Using Multimedia Online

• Can I embed a PDF/PowerPoint/Video/music player on my WordPress site?
• What is the best way to add multimedia files to my site?
• Are there any plugins that make working with multimedia easier?
• Should I host my videos on my website or link to them from youtube or vimeo?
• How can I embed an excel spreadsheet into my WordPress website?
• Where can I find stock multimedia files and do I need special software to work with them?

What you receive:

• Learn WordPress with One on one instruction
• Personalized guidance as you start building your WordPress website.
• Access to our beginner and intermediate how to video clips and WordPress guides.
• Customized training based on your specific needs.
• Remember, training is tax deductible!