WordPress: Create a Website or Blog

Hands-on Training from Experts NYC or Live Online

Learn how to create and maintain a website using WordPress, even if you have no web design background or coding experience. This comprehensive course will cover everything from installing WordPress to customizing themes and optimizing your site for search engines.

This course includes

  • 12 hours of live, project-based training from experts
  • Proprietary workbook included
  • Retake for free within 1 year
  • Access to class recordings (30 days)
  • Verified digital certificate of completion
  • Small class sizes

Anyone Can Make a Website with WordPress

WordPress enables you to create and maintain a website, even if you have no web design background or knowledge of the code that makes website works. Whether you want to create a new website/blog or manage an existing WordPress website, this class is for you. This course is geared for anyone, so you do not need prior experience with computer graphics or coding.

40% of all websites are made with WordPress because it provides loads of functionality and the ability to create themes (templates) to control the look and feel and functionality of a website. In this class you’ll learn how to create pages, edit content, and see how you (or the people you make websites for) will interact with WordPress when creating and editing content.

Are You a Web Designer or Developer?

If you’re a web developer who wants to learn this as well as how to take more control over WordPress using code, you should look at our WordPress Bootcamp.

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Schedule & Enrollment: WordPress: Create a Website or Blog

  • 12 Hours
  • $695
  • NYC or Live Online
  • Free retake
  • Expert instructors
  • Small classes

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Free Resources

WordPress is a popular CMS (Content Management System), originally created to host blog content. Today, many companies use WordPress to build and host custom websites, that include a company blog. BBC News, TechCrunch, and The New Yorker are just a few brands that use WordPress to host their blog.

For the average consumer, most people use WordPress.com, a website that you can log into to create and manage your website. For $300 annually, WordPress.com will host a completely custom website for your brand. However, developers have access to additional tools.

Through WordPress.org, developers can download the free, open-source WordPress software to create custom WordPress websites that are easily managed via the powerful WordPress CMS. With WordPress.org, a developer can create a custom WordPress theme, and host it on their private server free of charge. The client can then manage the website through the WordPress CMS without knowing any code.

With WordPress, you can create powerful websites that host the following features:

  • Add images, links, and videos to pages or blog posts
  • Install themes to create a uniform appearance across your site
  • Use WordPress plugins to add interactive functionality without code

Individuals with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP can create their own custom WordPress themes and install content via a local server. You can also customize the WordPress interface to add custom fields and a navigation panel on your website.

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Create a Website or Blog in WordPress

WordPress
  • WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that lets you create & manage a website or blog.
  • It’s popular for blogging, but you can build websites that don’t even have a blog.
  • Over 30% of all websites use WordPress (and growing).
  • Without having to know code, you can manage content (text, images, etc.). That’s why it’s called a content management system (CMS). Learn how to build a website or blog in our WordPress: Create a Website or Blog class.
  • Coders make themes to control the look of the site. Learn how to edit and code custom WordPress themes in our WordPress: Build Custom Themes class.
WordPress Blog versus Site
  • WordPress is popular for blogging, but you can build websites that don’t even have a blog!
  • Using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), you can manage content (text, images, etc.) without having to know web coding. Your content can be posts in a blog, or regular web pages. While WordPress is great for blogging, but you can have an entire WordPress site that does not even have a blog. What you put our a WordPress site is completely up to you!
  • Learn more in our class WordPress: Create a Website or Blog.
WordPress Themes
  • WordPress themes control the look and feel of a WordPress site.
  • You can install a WordPress theme made by someone else (free or paid), or code your own.
  • If you don’t know code, you can customize some aspects of the layout & appearance of a WordPress site, but there are limitations.
  • Coders create WordPress themes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & PHP. Learn how to edit and code custom WordPress themes in our WordPress: Build Custom Themes class.
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