2024 Webmaster Training Outline
Website Platform: WordPress
1. Overview
- Domains and DNS overview
- Understanding hosting
- What is PHP?
- WordPress overview
- Understanding content management
- What are themes?
- What are widgets?
- What are plugins?
- What are shortcodes?
2. Working with your WordPress website
- Website roles and responsibilities at your church
- Your church’s website policies
- Your church website’s content and branding style guide
- Users and user permissions
- Administration panel overview
- Your church website’s main administration areas and functionalities
3. Content creation and editing
- Understanding posts, categories, pages and permalinks
- Creating, updating and deleting pages and posts
- Adding, editing and deleting media
- Working with authoring and editing plugins (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder and others)
4. Website Functional Management
- Menus and navigation
- Theme widgets and components
- Your current plugin set overview
- Using and managing your current plugins
- Selecting and adding plugins
- Removing plugins
- Avoiding unexpected plugin behaviors
5. Security
- Your current website security overview
- Ensuring ongoing security
- User security
- General access and login protection
- Security plugins and monitoring
6. Integrations
- Social media
- Email and newsletters
- External congregational platforms and apps
- Podcasts
