Volunteer Course ‘How to Set up a WordPress Website in a Day,’ 17th May 2015

Silloth Town Council are running a three part course in Marketing, PR and Social Media to help Silloth Green volunteers market what happens on the Green.  The third part of the course will take place on 17th May between 10.00am and 4.00pm in the Solway Community Technology College, and will cover setting up and adding content to a WordPress website. You must bring your own laptop and charging lead to this session as it is very ‘hands on’ and practical.  Tablets will not generally be suitable for this particular course. Please contact Anna Malina, anna.malina@silloth-on-solway-co.uk to register for the day.

Summary of Course Content

Join Paul Teague and David Kinsella for this one-day practical training course to discover how to use WordPress as your main business web site.

WordPress is a free software programme and is used by over 74 million people worldwide.

Once set up, a WordPress site is extremely simple to use and update, which is why it is the most popular web platform in the world.

Paul and David will explain how to set up your own WordPress site for free, and then teach you how to use it and update it yourself.

Please note that this training will concentrate on WordPress.org rather than WordPress.com.

However, many of the same principles apply to WordPress.com and these sessions will still be very useful to users of that service.

• How to set up a free WordPress site for free in 5 minutes flat
• Logging into your new WordPress site
• Setting up the basics (Title, Tagline, Gravatars and Permalinks)
• The difference between Pages and Posts
• Your first WordPress page
• Your first WordPress post
• Adding images
• Finding and changing themes
• WordPress widgets – what they are and how to use them
• WordPress menus – how to set them up and change them
• An introduction to WordPress plugins

Tea and coffee will be available. 30 minute lunch break – please bring a pack lunch.