Before you spend the weekend getting deep into designing, developing, marketing, and otherwise improving your WordPress sites and skills, you’ll want to have a firm understanding of what WordPress is and why it has become the dominant web publishing platform.
If you have no experience with WordPress and want to learn about it as well as start setting up your first website, this workshop is for you.
The schedule will be fluid throughout the day, spending time where all attendees are finding the most value rather than adhering to a strict schedule. As a general guide, the topics that will be covered are:
- What is WordPress?
- The difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org
- How to find a web host and setup a site
- How to build and test sites on your computer
- What themes and plugins are
- How to choose a theme
- How to choose plugins
- Using the Customizer and Gutenberg
- When to pay for themes, plugins, and services
- Ways to make money with your site
- How to troubleshoot your site