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WordPress Training Guide for Website Administrators

Basic overview of the areas covered in WordPress Training.

Login

  • yourdomain.com/wp-admin
  • Login and forgotten username and password reset

User Setting

  • Managing users and setting the user role
  • Deleting users and attributing content to remaining users

Toolbar navigating

Hit House button to go to frontend, Hit Dashboard icon to go to backend.

Page settings

  • Add a new page
  • Delete page (move to trash) restore from trash
  • Draft mode and previewing content
  • Hit “View Page” to go to frontend. Hit “Edit Page” to go to Backend
  • how to preview?
  • how to roll back a page (revisions).

Block Settings

  • select your block on the page and see the individual block settings appear.

Editing content

  • update url
  • title
  • content
  • content blocks
  • delete blocks
  • hide blocks
  • navigating blocks
  • add image to content
  • the featured post image
  • add lists
  • add internal links
  • add author

Post Settings

  • Add a new posts
  • Hit “View Post” to go to frontend. Hit “Edit Post” to go to Backend
  • Posts archive page is a dynamic content and not an actual page - rather a collection of posts
  • Posts categories and tags

Custom Post Types

  • Posts
  • Case Studies
  • custom post type taxonomies

The most practical use Case

  • Adding blog posts
  • Fix broken links
  • Checking form entries
  • Adding more testimonials

Media Library

  • image sizes
  • Uploading files - whats the upload limit?

Contact forms

  • viewing entries
  • notification settings
  • Adding menu items

Redirects

  • How to add redirects

Global Blocks and Global content

Plugins

  • What plugins do we have
  • What plugins require a license

Security and maintenance

  • site backups performed by server or by plugins?
  • updating plugins

Woocommerce

  • product variations (swatches and other attributes)
  • orders
  • email templates
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