WordPress Training
WordPress Training
Blogging is one of the best things that your company can do to promote your brand, improve your search engine ranking, and give your company and products a human touch. Studies show that companies that blog receive 55% more visitors and 70% more twitter followers than companies that don’t. So if your not blogging, then you may be losing a lot of visitors and a ton of potential clients.
The nice thing about WordPress is that its not just a great blogging platform, its’ a very powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can power both large and small corporate websites. It also has a very robust e-commerce and social media component that can really hep get your presence felt quickly on the web.
The most powerful thing about WordPress though is community that supports it and continues to update the platform through easy-to-use and configure plugins and widgets that can add a tremendous amount of functionality to your website in a very short period of time and for little cost. That is why Massachusetts Web Design’s strongly recommends WordPress for a lot of small to medium sized companies, and even some large companies can greatly benefit from features that WordPress can bring.
Our WordPress training will help you get quickly up to speed so that you can build, manage, and maintain a custom WordPress site and blog.
In our one hour WordPress training class, you will learn the following:
- Understand the difference between Posts and Pages and how to make them work together
- Create, format, and edit entries into your site and customize them with images and even video.
- Know how to work with images including optimizing, cropping, and resizing.
- Know how Categories and Tags work, and properly categorize and tag each post
- Know how o optimize your pages and posts for Search Engines (SEO)
- Manage comments from your users.
- Know how to format your sidebar, and work with widgets and plugins that will give your site added functionality
- Manage writers, editors, and other administrators of your site.
All of our training sessions offer a question and answer session, and we also offer customized training for your business (for example, training on a specific WordPress theme).