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LinkedIn Learning

WordPress 5 Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

WordPress makes web publishing accessible to everyone. Learn how to build your own feature-rich blog or website with the self-hosted version of WordPress.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • WordPress: An introduction
  • What is new in WordPress 5.5?
  • WordPress: .org and .com
1. Up and Running with WordPress
  • How WordPress works
  • Install and running WordPress
  • The admin panel
  • Change the language of your site
2. Content Management
  • The three main content types of WordPress
  • Posts vs. pages
  • Manage content in WordPress
  • Gutenberg: The WordPress block editor
3. Working with Blocks in the Block Context
  • Create content
  • Create and edit links
  • Create and manage blocks
  • Block toolbar and properties panel
  • Change block type
4. Document Context
  • Publish, update, and delete posts and pages
  • Add categories and tags
  • Sidebar: The difference between categories and tags
  • Add a featured image
  • The More block
5. Block Deep Dive
  • A deep dive into some important blocks
  • Text blocks
  • The image block
  • Other image blocks
  • Media and text layout block
  • Columns block
  • Embed blocks
  • Group block
  • Block Manager
6. Reusable Blocks
  • Reusable blocks and how they work
  • Create and add reusable blocks
  • Edit reusable blocks
  • Create templates with reusable blocks
7. The Rest of the Iceberg
  • From content creation to site management

Taught by

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

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