Expand Your Knowledge
Retirement is the ideal time to learn new skills. Senior Courses in WordPress Website Building will keep you busy for hours. It open’s all sorts of opportunities which can be used to generate a passive income.
Share your experiences
Learning new skills together, share experience. Senior Courses in WordPress Website Building will give your hobbies a showcase. Document your life, your experiences for the next generations.
generate passive income
WordPress can be used as a blog. This may be to inform, inspire even teach others. Making it into a website, blog and woo-commerce store, no only gives purpose to learning a skill but opens the door to making money.
Considering a WordPress Course ?
What can you do with WordPress.
- Create a blog: Each blog is a stand along web page which can be used in many different ways. You can document events and holiday trips, historic places. Discuss books, hobbies and interests from story telling to hiking, and everything in between.
- Have static pages, create pages for social clubs, groups, teaching or even family trees. Include blog pages to use for adding information to your site. Eg. Your site may be for a bowling group. Static pages will discuss why, what and how of the group, contact form, membership/ joining. Blog pages will be added to teach, showcase all aspects of the bowling using photographs and video.
- Create a social network, use the site to interview others, discuss and document, invite others to write blogs, collect and put together articles with others. Document your family history together with other family members. Pages can be password protected.
- Display and promote art, photography, or any community events and outings.
- Build an online store to sell handmade or other items. Start an auction site.
Take a look at the WordPress showcase sites, see if it is something you would like to try.!
What do you need to do the WordPress course.
- A desktop computer or laptop
- Hosting for your WordPress site (watch our free Introduction Video)
- Choosing the right package (watch our free Introduction Video)
- Domain name – register with your package (watch our free Introduction Video)
- Know what the costs are before you start (watch our free Introduction Video)
- Idea of what you want to use the site for (watch our free Introduction Video)
- Build it by yourself or with a partner (watch our free Introduction Video)
How much does the course and web hosting cost?
- Learn to build a wordpress blog or website will cost you £25.00 and include all video’s and modules except Woo Commerce.
- Woo Commerce module will cost you £25.00 for all video’s and modules.
Costs for Web Hosting, paid directly to hosting company, required to start the course:
- A Web Hosting Package : from £7.00 per month for Start package, £9.00 for Grow package, £12.00 per month for Scale package.. Prices on Fast Host Web Hosting. ( 13.01.2025)
What will you learn?
- About hosting packages
- Installing and using WordPress
- How to use the WordPress dashboard
- Setting the WordPress up with your preferences
- Choosing a Theme
- Using a block builder to create your site
- Installing Plugins, choosing the right ones
- Backing your work up
- Branding, colours and images
- Setting up and email address and Contact Form
- Writing Blog Posts and creating Pages
- Headers, Footers and Featured Images
- SEO to keep your site listed on all search engines
- How to create content, upload images, use free online programs for images
- Menu Creation and placement
- Using Widgets and Sidebars
If you are intending to build a site which uses ecommerce
- Installing Woo Commerce
- Setting up the payment gateways
- understanding and entering products
- SEO for products
- Checking everything works and you can receive payments
Let's get started?
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