Getting started with WordPress
Are you struggling to navigate WordPress, or thinking of building your own website but don’t know where to start?
WordPress is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world, powering nearly half of all websites, but its interface can be overwhelming—especially for beginners.
Whether you're managing an existing WordPress site or planning to launch a new one, this free webinar is the perfect introduction to help you gain confidence and get the most out of the platform.
FREE LIFETIME ACCESS
- This recording is updated every time we run the webinar live
- You'll always have access to the very latest information
- No subscriptions or memberships required
- Includes 4 bite sized bonus videos demoing key WordPress 'how tos' PLUS access to a full demo video showing you how to build a one page WordPress site in less than an hour
- Downloadable copy of the webinar slides
- Ask us questions via email
- More than 130 5* reviews for our webinars
What you'll learn
- What is WordPress?
- How to install and set up WordPress
- Finding your way around the WordPress backend interface
- How WordPress organises website content
- What's the difference between pages and posts and when should you use each?
- What you can load into your media library?
- Adding new pages to your site or editing the pages you already have
- How to build a page using the WordPress block editor
- Adding new blocks to your pages and moving blocks around
- Managing the look and feel of your site using themes
- What is a theme?Â
- How can you chose the best theme for your website?Â
- Things to consider when selecting a theme
- How to change your WordPress theme
- Adding functionality to your site using plugins and widgets
- How plugins help you add functionalityÂ
- Finding suitable plugins to enhance your website
- Installing a simple forms plugin and adding a contact form to your page
- Recommendations for the most useful plugins that every site needs
Who should sign up for this webinar?
 What's included?Â
You'll get access to a recording of this webinar the last time it was delivered live. Every time we deliver it live we update the on demand version so you'll always have access to the very latest version.Â
The recording includes the Q&A session at the end of the live webinar and you also get a downloadable copy of the slides for your reference.Â
If you'd like to ask us questions or get help with anything you can book a free half hour 'clinic' session with us and talk to us live or ask questions via email.Â
Plus FREE bite-sized bonus videos
- How to install WordPress
- Optimising your images for Google search and adding alt text in WordPress
- Using the Yoast plugin to add meta titles and meta descriptions to your pages
- Using Updraft Plus to take a backup of your WordPress site
PLUS...
Free access to a demo video showing you how to build a simple one page WordPress site in just one hour
Why Awesome Tech Training?
We are Steve, Lorna and Rachel - three friends who have worked together on and off for more than 25 years. Each of us has (many!) years of experience in different aspects of digital marketing and web development.
We’ve always enjoyed working together and in 2019 we decided to formalise this arrangement and so we set up Awesome Tech Training. Rachel is based in the UK home counties, whilst Lorna and Steve are based near Dundalk in Ireland.
Over the past few years we’ve build a range of webinars and other training courses firmly based on our own experiences of marketing, sales and web development in the real world.
We’ve been at this for a while, so we know what the pitfalls are, what can go wrong, what the most common problems are and how to address them!
We try and bring this real world, practical approach into everything that we do – offering webinar attendees and other clients the benefit of our own experience to apply to their specific circumstances.
Our clients tend to be small businesses who don’t have the resource to outsource their whole marketing operation and want to be able to take control of it themselves.
Our training is designed to be affordable, practically focused and results oriented so you can start putting what you’ve learned into practice immediately and get quick results.
More than 5,000 people have come on our webinars – see what our customers say about us here.
What people say about this webinar
Ivone
Very helpful webinar to go through how to build a website using WordPress. I struggled when I tried to build one up without any training. So good to find this free webinar and also being introduced using other free tools!! Thank You!!
Rob Beasley
Very informative and helpful. Superbly presented, all questions answered and well worth attending. I'm not a newbie to Wordpress but I still learned a lot.
Calum Robertson
The free hours training on WordPress was really useful, Lorna and the team took the time to explain all the basics and answer all questions. They're also happy to help with a lot more if required which is reassuring.
Arabella Bond
The 'Getting Started on WordPress' webinar run by Rachel and her team was a very well spent hour that helped us to refresh our knowledge with the workings of WordPress and has given us the confidence to edit and update our existing website. We will certainly be checking out their other recorded webinars and would feel confident to ask for their help should we need it. Professional and precise.Â
Diana Crawcour
I have just completed the Getting Started with Wordpress free webinar and it was more useful than I could have imagined. The instructors were concise, knowledgeable and told you wanted to know. Really helpful and friendly team and I am looking forward to my next session! Thanks.
Tamsin Preece
Just attended the WordPress training - absolutely brilliant. I've attended plenty of webinars for various things but this one really stood out for the clear and clean presentation. I didn't even slope off for a quick cuppa half-way through...
Suzie Sooz
I signed up for a free WordPress training session and was dubious of the quality. After all - it was free and I expected a catch. I am so glad I did! The training was so good - I learnt so much and all my questions were answered. I will certainly be back for more training sessions. The training is affordable unlike many other providers and is a reasonable length. Thank you so much!
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