WordPress basics for small business owners
Sample course. Run your own WordPress site with confidence: pages, posts, menus, images and the routine that keeps it safe.
- 7 lessons
- 45 min
- Beginner
What you will learn
- Find your way around the WordPress dashboard
- Write and publish pages and posts
- Add images that load quickly
- Edit menus without breaking the site
- Keep WordPress, themes and plugins up to date
- Take and restore a backup
About this course
A short, practical course for people who have a WordPress site and want to look after it themselves.
Each lesson is a few minutes of video with written notes underneath, so you can follow along in your own dashboard.
Course content
1. Getting started
- 1. A tour of the dashboard (locked — enrol to watch) 6 min
- 2. Pages or posts: which to use (locked — enrol to watch) 5 min
2. Content
- 3. Writing in the block editor (locked — enrol to watch) 9 min
- 4. Images that do not slow the site down (locked — enrol to watch) 7 min
- 5. Menus (locked — enrol to watch) 4 min
3. Looking after it
- 6. Updates without the fear (locked — enrol to watch) 8 min
- 7. Backups you can actually restore (locked — enrol to watch) 6 min
Before you start
- A WordPress site you can log in to
- No technical knowledge
Who it is for
- Owners of a small business site
- Anyone taking over a site someone else built
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