Private WordPress Training Courses
in London, UK
Provide yourself or your team with the best training with a bespoke, private WordPress course, focused on your exact requirements
UNIQUE BENEFITS OF PRIVATE TRAINING
- Customise the course to cover the right topics to suit your needs
- Individual attention allowing you to learn at your own pace
- Work exclusively on your web site and materials
- Freedom to stop and ask as many questions as necessary
- No-one is held back or overshadowed by a larger group
- No external participants mean 100% focus on your business requirements
- Focus and relevance means cost-efficient training time
- Flexibility on timing, group size and location gives added convenience
INTRODUCTION TO WORDPRESS - COURSE SUMMARY
A one-day, private wordpress course, designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to create and run your own WordPress site or blog.
- Installing and setting up WordPress
- Designing and building professional-looking sites
- Blogging and copywriting techniques
- Attract new customers by improving your site`s Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Measure your site`s traffic with Google Analytics
- Using Themes to further enhancing your site
- Customising WordPress with plugins for CMS, eCommerce & blogging
Plus fantastic, exclusive FREE offers for every participant:
- FREE WordPress book
- FREE unlimited telephone and e-mail support
CONVENIENT LOCATION
My flexible approach means your private training can be held at the most convenient location for you. I will be happy to come to your offices or home; alternatively you can come to me in Edgware HA8 or I can provide training facilities at the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank for no additional cost. Just let me know what you'd prefer.ADVANCED WORDPRESS COURSES
Take your WordPress skills on to the next level with an Advanced WordPress course. Learn more about specific topics from your introductory training session or develop expertise on key plugins and additional systems. I also offer Advanced WordPress CMS training for Web Designers who wish to develop their own Themes and use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). Find out more hereDuration: 1 day.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress started as just a blogging systems, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination.
COURSE CONTENT
Getting Started - Installation and Upgrades
- Installing WordPress in five minutes
- Upgrading WordPress to 3.0
- New features of WordPress 3.0
- Best Practices for upgrading WordPress
- Importing and exporting data
Configuring your WordPress site
- General settings
- Discussion settings
- Permalink settings
- Privacy settings
- Reading settings
- Writing settings
- Miscellaneous settings
Uploading and maintaining the right content
- New features in WordPress
- Creating content: Posts vs. Pages
- How to write a Page in WordPress
- WordPress categories explained
- Using the WordPress Content Management System (CMS)
- Managing Pages
- Managing Links
- Managing WordPress Tags
- Managing your WordPress Media Library
- Updating your WordPress Profile
Blogging with WordPress
- Writing a blog Post
- Managing Posts
- Managing comments
- Fighting SPAM with Akismet
Make sure your customers find your site
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Making your content search-engine friendly
- Using analytics to deliver accountability and insight
Get more from your site by customising WordPress
- Installing and activating WordPress Themes
- Using WordPress plugins
- Working with WordPress Widgets
- Reviewing CMS and eCommerce plugins
WordPress Administration
- Best Practices for upgrading WordPress
- Managing WordPress users
- Permission levels and log-ins
- WordPress User Roles explained
- Managing files
- The WordPress Dashboard
I began a one day Wordpress training course with Alex with no web expertise at all and left with a site up and running and more importantly the confidence and the expertise to allow me to continue updating and building on that site myself. Tremendous value, given what we were able to achieve and the one on one focus meant we were able to concentrate on my specific needs.
Sean Boyce , http://boyciesbettingblog.com/ With several options available to me for Wordpress training, I thank my lucky stars that I chose the one-to-one course with Alex Shaw. He was very patient and by the end of just one day,I felt far more confident than I thought I would, to go away and build my first Wordpress website. Thank you Alex, I'll be back for the advance class in a couple of months Aviva, Faith Communications Alex's expertise has been invaluable to the direction of my career and business. His enthusiasm and passion makes him a great teacher. I recently completed a one on one training day with Alex, I started not knowing anything about WordPress, then by the end of the day I felt like an expert.
Dave Beckett, Director, Webgenesis Ltd www.webgenesis.co.uk Alex provided a professional and truly bespoke training course, where all my queries were answered at my pace, gaining useful hints and tips during the day. I came away buzzing with ideas – I would definitely recommend this course – thanks again!" Cathy Sadler, www.icould.com Unbelievable, without a doubt the most competent and professional training course I have had the pleasure of taking.
Mark, Royal Academy Of Music Relevant and well paced. I left with a good understanding and the ability to practice more and build a blog. Which is what I wanted from today!
Ann, TeleAdapt Helpful, informative good guide to using Wordpress.
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Sean Boyce , http://boyciesbettingblog.com/ With several options available to me for Wordpress training, I thank my lucky stars that I chose the one-to-one course with Alex Shaw. He was very patient and by the end of just one day,I felt far more confident than I thought I would, to go away and build my first Wordpress website. Thank you Alex, I'll be back for the advance class in a couple of months Aviva, Faith Communications Alex's expertise has been invaluable to the direction of my career and business. His enthusiasm and passion makes him a great teacher. I recently completed a one on one training day with Alex, I started not knowing anything about WordPress, then by the end of the day I felt like an expert.
Dave Beckett, Director, Webgenesis Ltd www.webgenesis.co.uk Alex provided a professional and truly bespoke training course, where all my queries were answered at my pace, gaining useful hints and tips during the day. I came away buzzing with ideas – I would definitely recommend this course – thanks again!" Cathy Sadler, www.icould.com Unbelievable, without a doubt the most competent and professional training course I have had the pleasure of taking.
Mark, Royal Academy Of Music Relevant and well paced. I left with a good understanding and the ability to practice more and build a blog. Which is what I wanted from today!
Ann, TeleAdapt Helpful, informative good guide to using Wordpress.
Yell.com