Making WordPress Work for You How to host your own WordPress site
WordPress is the publishing platform of choice for millions of people. It is powerful, flexible, extensible, open source, free and supported by an active community of developers and users. Exploiting the full potential of WordPress requires a self-hosted installation. This offers features not available on WordPress.com, allowing complete control over the style and functionality of a site through themes, plugins and customisation of WordPress templates.
This workshop will help you develop the practical skills needed to install, maintain and customise WordPress. Participants will build their own fully functional installation of WordPress on a USB drive, which can later be published or used for ongoing development.
Topics:
- How WordPress works
- Installing, securing and configuring your site
- Themes, widgets and site customisation
- Extending WordPress with plugins and custom functions
- Not just a blog - alternative ways to use WordPress
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Installed, customised and explored a working WordPress site
- Explored different ways to use posts, pages, categories, tags and feeds
- Considered alternative uses for WordPress beyond a blog
Who is it for?
This workshop is for anyone considering hosting their own WordPress installation for a blog or website. It provides an opportunity to install, configure and customise a working WordPress site and explore what is involved in running it in practice.
This is not a technical workshop on server administration or developing for WordPress. Some knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP would be useful, but is not essential.
Scheduled workshops
Scheduled public workshops: