Course Details

This course gives an overview of what WordPress is and how people use it to make and manage websites. We start with an overview of the different ways websites are made and show how content management software, like WordPress, is often the best approach for making a website. We demonstrate what WordPress looks like on the front and back-end and show how WordPress plugins and themes can let you easily extend and customize a WordPress site.

In this course we explain the pros and cons of setting up WordPress locally on your computer and show you how to do so using the popular free software, DesktopServe. The course will also cover how people are able to view, add and edit content on your site.