Wordpress Training Manual
Client Adviser CPD
Job name: Wordpress CMS Manual
Step / Task: Training of Wordpress Content Management System Date: 20th April, 2013
Wordpress Training Manual
About Wordpress
WordPress is a powerful semantic publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of
features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy,
pleasant and appealing as possible. We are proud to offer you a freely distributed,
standards-compliant, fast, light and free content management system, with sensible
default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.
There are many features that come standard with WordPress, however there are
literally tens of thousands of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual
functionality is nearly limitless. You are also free to do whatever you like with the
WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial projects.
For a beginners guide to Wordpress, please visit:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress
About this guide
This guide will teach a user to learn how to do the following:
- Edit / update / Amend Content
- Add an image to an article
- Add a hyperlink to an article
- Upload Images to image gallery pages
Please note: Wordpress is a very extensive CMS and has a huge number of features
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Getting Started
To login, go to
http://slavisaristic.com/wordpress2
Please note: This will change once site is live.
Click ‘Login’
Enter login details to Wordpress Content Management System
username: natalia
password: n@talia2013
Note: For examples sake, we will use Natalia’s User Name and Password. Further in
this manual you will learn to add other users.
Logged In
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You can view help instructions and tips about Wordpress on the right.
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To edit or add a New Page
To edit any page click on ‘Pages’ tab on the left hand menu and then click the page you want to edit. You will now see a complete list of the pages where you can delete or hide pages if needed.
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Once clicked on a page you can edit the content. Once you have finished, you can preview the changes or press ‘ Update’ to save the changes and upload to make live.
The title of the page is in the first field at the top. To add a new page, click new page link on the left.
When adding new page, enter title and content and then choose which section and what template the page should have. Again, preview or press update buttons to check and make page live.
To edit or add a new Course, Trainer or Job
Firstly click on Posts in the left hand menu bar. There you will see all posts which encompass Trainers, Jobs and Courses.
To edit a post (Course, Trainer or Job) click on the link for the post and you will be able to edit any of the details, just like pages. As well as add, replace or delete the images that goes with that post.
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You will see the usual page but with blank content. You need to add the title for what ever the post will be (Course name, Trainer name or Job title). And then add the content for that post.
You will then need to select which category the post comes under. (Advice Article, Courses, Jobs, Trainers, Uncategorized)
And you can also add the thumbnail image for that post.
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Be sure to fill these fields in depending on what the post is. If for a ‘Trainer’ just fill in the Trainer form. Once complete, again you can click the ‘Preview’ button or ‘Publish’ button on the right to make the post live.
To edit or add a new news feed to the News ticker on the
homepage.
Click ‘Appearance’ on the left hand menu. Then click ‘Evolution Themes Options’ In the main area you will see a form with three tabs: General, News and Homepage. Click on ‘News’ the middle tab and here you can add a news item (1 Sentence) and insert the link if needed for which the news feed will link to. Click the save button at the bottom and the feed will be live on the homepage.
