WordPress
| Duration: | 1 half day |
| Audience: | Everyone who is interested in setting up a website with WordPress within the University of Groningen environment. |
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Course fee |
Enrollment |
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Students and PhD students: € 20 |
Contact: secretariat CIT (050 - 36 39200) |
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Course fee includes CIT-course documentation. |
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Course Format
Presentation of theory, demonstrations, self study and hands-on practice.
Contents
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) with which you can create and maintain a website. WordPress started as a simple system for creating weblogs. It has since developed from a weblog program into a fully-fledged way to build a website. You can request a WordPress installation at the CIT and possibly register your own domain. For the course you will use a "practice WordPress site" and organize it according to your own wishes.
Topics:
- The dashboard: explanation of the components and possibilities of the program
- Adjustments for use
- WordPress themes: theme overview, choosing a theme, changing a theme
- Categories and tags: explanation, creating and using them
- Creating pages and messages
- Using images
- Widgets and Plugins: explanation, examples
- Users and authorizations
Aim
This course is intended to help you to set up your own WordPress site. In the course you will learn the basics of working with a WordPress site. You start with a standard empty WordPress site as offered by the CIT. The CIT installs the necessary software and you start working as an administrator
| Last modified: | 23 January 2018 10.10 a.m. |