WordPress Bootcamp

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Description

Course fee and subsidy

This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course. The subsidised course fee is $120.

About the course

The course focuses on the background to WordPress, how each version works, and how to edit and manage the WordPress dashboard.  We then go on to install WordPress in class over the weekend build a website for a holiday accommodation business.  We cover themes, plug-ins and an overview of what you would need to do to liven your website up on the internet.

Note that we use the Avada Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme in these classes. 

Expected learning outcomes

On completion of the course we expect that you will be able to:

• explain the differences between free and self-hosted WordPress
• understand at a basic level how to install and configure each version of WordPress
• be confident to manage the WordPress dashboard on a website
• learn how to add/delete and edit pages
• add basic plug-ins and themes to your WordPress website

Who should attend?

This course is designed for those new to WordPress who wish to learn how to set up a simple WordPress website. Students should be confident computer users to attend this hands-on course including the following skills:

• Ability to create folders/directories
• Ability to find files
• Ability to save files to removable media
• Ability to use a web browser and search the Internet
• Ability to bookmark web pages for future reference
• Ability to navigate comfortably around Windows 
• Have and use an e-mail account

Class numbers are limited to 8 students.  A comprehensive training manual is provided. This course is taught in a PC suite in Selwyn College.

Prerequisites

This course is designed to appeal to people who are planning to build a website of their own using WordPress and want to manage their own website environment ongoing. Strong computer skills necessary.

Testimonials

Testimonial from April 2024 course: Dear David

I think I was just too ‘full’ to be able to think clearly at 5pm yesterday but a few things are now more obvious now.  Andrea and I left Selwyn College having had a real WordPress workout and learning a great deal about what the software offers and the endless possibilities it presents for the creation of websites.

 We were impressed by your welcoming of questions and your ability to provide thoughtful answers.  It takes skill and genuine kindness and a huge amount of energy (and voicebox!) to do this - being constantly on the ‘go'. Your enthusiasm and passion for WordPress really shone over the two days. You clearly enjoy working with people who are taking (in many cases) their first stumbling steps and that was gratifying to see.

Thank you for the huge investment you put into a two day course that is as much a bootcamp for the presenter as for the class. The fact that the workbook has been through 20 revisions (admittedly over a number of years) speaks to this huge commitment of ‘self’ to doing the very best you can and for your care and concern.

Thank you again for all you gave our class of eight students - well done!

Best wishes Glen and Andrea C

Feedback from June 2016 course: I have just completed the WordPress bootcamp run by David Partis.  I entered with no confidence for website building and came away empowered to start building my website. David was patient, engaging and happy to share his valuable experience. The course was run at a great pace, using an easy to follow comprehensive manual . David was mindful of the ability levels of those attending and ensured we all made progress.  I highly recommend this course. E Flynn

Feedback from June 2016 course: I recently completed David’s WordPress Bootcamp course run over a weekend. David is very passionate and knowledgeable about websites, web design and WordPress and willingly shares this with his class participants in an organised and structured manner. He was very respectful of participants with existing skills and experience and patient with those who had questions. The class notes were easy to follow and a great take-home resource. C Watson

Feedback from June 2016 course: Hi David, I just wanted to thank you for the WordPress boot camp course that I attended this weekend.I was very apprehensive at the beginning but your style of teaching and the course material provided are both excellent and logical. The class covered far more than I expected and I learnt so much. I would highly recommend you to anyone considering doing a course on anything computer related. Thanks very much. B Mills

Comments from March 2014 course: Enjoyed learning via practice on the computer and actually building the website was the best part.  Great to see results come to life. David was really great.  Very detailed explanations.  Step by step process.  Great manual! David made the course interesting, fun and easy to follow.  Enjoyed David's enthusiasm and clear, concise instruction.  Enjoyed David's presentation style - methodical - interactive - patient.