Ok so you have or are planning a blog for your website and you decided to use the fantastic program called WordPress for your site. Now What? You may have gotten it installed and have logged into the admin back end but what do all those menus and controls back there tell you. You may also be thinking about setting yourself up with a WordPress blog/website and don’t know where to begin well you can start here and learn what you need. Yes, an easy to follow hands-on WordPress Training course located right here in Victoria BC.

Well if you are in the Victoria BC (#yyj on Twitter) area, you have a new option to find out how to manage your WordPress install. There is a great course offered at Shoreline Community School by me. This course on the basics of WordPress will walk you through getting it setup properly and understanding the admin area of your WordPress install.

I also cover the basics of plugins and how to install and configure with some hands-on demonstrations in installing a few of the most useful plugins that every WordPress installation should have. Get started now and register online at http://www.bookking.ca/bkshorelinepub/courses/index.asp and enter course code # CO-223-2 and sign up.

Over the course of two evenings I will take you from the admin login of your WordPress installation, explain the components of the admin menus and what they do. Show you the best settings that I have discovered you should have on all WordPress installations. Help you discover some of the important steps to getting your basic SEO settings completed. Explain the difference between posts and pages and some of the best ways to use both.

Explain what widgets are and what some of the best ones are for your WordPress Installation and how they can really help you with your site. I will explain about categories, comments and web links and how to best use them all.

This course is currently offered about once a month it will be more often as demand rises. There will also be an advanced course coming in the near future as I have a demand for it. If you would like to contact me directly for more information on how I can help you out please email me at dragon@smartbomb.ca or call me at 250-885-2888 between 8am and 8pm PST