Category: Beginners

Learn the basics of WordPress in these sessions specifically for those just starting out.

Beginners Guide to WordPress – Part 2

Length: 2 hours

Everyone has a story to tell; and you think the web is the perfect place to tell it. But how do you start? Welcome to WordPress for Beginners. WordPress powers over 25% of the websites on the global Internet. There’s a reason for that number. It’s SO simple. Spend an hour and you can publish to a global audience of more than 3.5 billion people. And it’s SO complex. You can spend years learning how it works.

So what can we cover in two hours? Enough to get you started & going in the right direction!

Continuing on from part 1 of this workshop.

Part 2

  • Creating a WordPress Page
  • Applying a WordPress Page Template
  • What are WordPress Plugins?
  • Installing WordPress Plugins
  • What is a WordPress Theme?
  • How to Install a WordPress Theme
  • Using WordPress Widgets
  • Creating a Custom Menu in WordPress
  • Managing Comments in WordPress
  • Creating Users in WordPress

Beginners Guide to WordPress – Part 1

Length: 2 hours

Everyone has a story to tell; and you think the web is the perfect place to tell it. But how do you start? Welcome to WordPress for Beginners. WordPress powers over 25% of the websites on the global Internet. There’s a reason for that number. It’s SO simple. Spend an hour and you can publish to a global audience of more than 3.5 billion people. And it’s SO complex. You can spend years learning how it works.

So what can we cover in two hours? Enough to get you started & going in the right direction!

Part 1

  • What Is WordPress?
  • WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  • Getting Started
  • Your WordPress Login
  • Exploring the WordPress Dashboard
  • Using the WordPress Admin Bar
  • Exploring WordPress Settings
  • WordPress Posts vs. Pages
  • Creating a WordPress Post
  • Adding Links in WordPress
  • Using the WordPress Media Library
  • Formatting WordPress Posts
  • Scheduling WordPress Posts
  • WordPress Categories & Tags

Part 2

Part 2 continues after lunch. Details can be found here.

Successfully implementing Open Graph for improved social media marketing

Intended Audience: Beginners / Business Owners / Content Creators

Speaker: Steve Mortiboy

We know how important social media has become in our online marketing strategy. Eyes on your social media posts can convert to site visitors which can convert to sales. Great looking social media posts capture a visitors attention and influence click-throughs.

This session will cover how to use Open Graph and other social meta tags to create great looking social media posts and how to debug common problems with your social sharing.

How to Break your WordPress Website

Intended Audience: Beginners / Business Owners

Speaker: Sharon A. Dawson

The white screen of death! You were simply uploading content, updating a WordPress plugin, or clicking on this neat thing to see what it does and then your screen goes blank. You cannot login to your website. You can’t even see your WP login screen anymore. HELP!

In this session, you’ll learn how to break your WordPress site by:
* Updating to the latest version of WordPress
* Updating your plugins
* Adding new plugins
* Adding 301 redirects
* And much more

Most importantly, you’ll learn how these seemingly innocuous updates that should be easy to make on your website can break your WordPress site if not done properly.

Building a Trustworthy Website

Intended Audience: Beginners / Business Owners

Speaker: Ray Mitchell

It’s true that having a strong social media presence is important, but when your latest viral post drives them to your website, will your business be seen as credible? With a little planning, you can design a WordPress website that will create and leverage trust signals to gain the confidence of your site visitors.

Participants will learn how to do a “trust audit” of their website and leave with an actionable plan to improve the trustworthiness of their website.

Passwords are one of your biggest weaknesses. Don’t be a victim.

Intended Audience: Beginners

Speaker: Chloe Chamberland

It can take as little as .29 milliseconds to crack a simple 7 character password. That is fast. I am here to help walk you through some of the tips and tricks of the trade to creating and storing secure passwords that will help defend not only your WordPress site, but also your personal life. I will walk you through some through some of the history behind passwords, what constitutes a strong password safe from compromise, and what is takes to securely store some of these incredibly unique and defensive passwords. We can make the web a safer place one site at a time, one password at a time.